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One Minute to Midnight

In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we came to Armageddon. Here, for the first time, are gripping accounts of Khrushchev's plan to destroy the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo; the handling of Soviet nuclear warheads on Cuba; and the extraordinary story of a U-2 spy plane that got lost over Russia at the peak of the crisis. Written like a thriller, One Minute to Midnight is an exhaustively researched account of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. called “the most dangerous moment in human history,” and the definitive book on the Cuban missile crisis.

“Three minutes—NOW.” “Two minutes—NOW.” “One minute-NOW.” “Thirty
seconds–NOW" “Twenty seconds.” “Ten seconds.” The crew felt a jolt as high-
pressure hydraulics snapped the bomb bay doors open behind them. A yellow
warning light on the slight panel signaled “Bomb Doors Open." “RELEASE.” The
bombardier used his thumb to press a handheld pickle switch, resembling the
button of a video game controller. A gleaming 4-ton ovalshaped canister dropped
into the ...

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

A novel

Winner of the Man Booker Prize “Nothing since Cormac McCarthy’s The Road has shaken me like this.” —The Washington Post From the author of the acclaimed Gould’s Book of Fish, a magisterial novel of love and war that traces the life of one man from World War II to the present. August, 1943: Australian surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his affair with his uncle’s young wife two years earlier. His life, in a brutal Japanese POW camp on the Thai-Burma Death Railway, is a daily struggle to save the men under his command. Until he receives a letter that will change him forever. A savagely beautiful novel about the many forms of good and evil, of truth and transcendence, as one man comes of age, prospers, only to discover all that he has lost.

... spurted piss and semen all the same. During his trial, Choi Sang-min became
aware of many things—the Geneva convention, chains of command, Japanese
military structure and so on—about which he had hitherto only the vaguest idea.