FDR, Stalin, Churchill, Truman and the making of the modern world.
Michael Dobbs was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at the University of York, with fellowships at Princeton and Harvard. He is a reporter for the Washington Post, where he spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the collapse of communism. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
[Dobbs] has made extensive use of untapped archive material to
reveal the secrets of the cloak-and-dagger operations behind the
nuclear stand-off in the Caribbean . . . Excellent
*Daily Mail*
Dobbs' hour-by-hour overview is a worthy study of this much
mythologised fortnight . . . Dobbs' chronological approach not only
provides a natural sense of pace, but also allows him to illustrate
the near-fatal time lag in communication between the two sides
*Time Out*
Although Dobbs, like other historians, chooses to tell this story
through the personalities of the four leaders, he nonetheless
accepts that history sometimes follows an internal logic that is
bewildering to those caught up in its contradictory currents but
makes complete sense from a distance. (5 star review)
*Daily Express*
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