A spy like no other: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the KGB and the Kennedy assassination

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The arms race between the Soviet Union and the USA was the most dangerous confrontation in the history of the world. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev's decision to place nuclear missiles in Cuba, and US President John F. Kennedy's willingness to call his bluff, brought the Soviet Union and the West to the edge of a cataclysmic nuclear war. Now, on the fiftieth anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, Robert Holmes, a British diplomat in Moscow during the early 1960s, provides an answer to one of the greatest mysteries of the Cold War. Kennedy's confidence in his brinkmanship hung on the ev.;Cover; Title Page; Dedication; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; GLOSSARY; PROLOGUE; 1: MOSCOW 1953; 2: BERLIN 1953; 3: LONDON 1953; 4: MOSCOW 1954; 5: BERLIN 1954; 6: BERLIN 1955; 7: MOSCOW 1955; 8: ANKARA 1955-6; 9: MOSCOW 1956; 10: BUDAPEST 1956; 11: BERLIN 1956; 12: MOSCOW 1957; 13: MOSCOW 1958; 14: CUBA 1958; 15: CUBA 1959; 16: MOSCOW 1959; 17: MIAMI 1960; 18: MOSCOW 1960; 19: LONDON 1960; 20: MOSCOW 1961 (PART 1); 21: LONDON 1961; 22: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 1); 23: MOSCOW 1961 (PART 2); 24: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 2); 25: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 3); 26: WASHINGTON AND MIAMI 1961. Cover Title Page Dedication CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS GLOSSARY PROLOGUE 1: MOSCOW 1953 2: BERLIN 1953 3: LONDON 1953 4: MOSCOW 1954 5: BERLIN 1954 6: BERLIN 1955 7: MOSCOW 1955 8: ANKARA 1955-6 9: MOSCOW 1956 10: BUDAPEST 1956 11: BERLIN 1956 12: MOSCOW 1957 13: MOSCOW 1958 14: CUBA 1958 15: CUBA 1959 16: MOSCOW 1959 17: MIAMI 1960 18: MOSCOW 1960 19: LONDON 1960 20: MOSCOW 1961 (PART 1) 21: LONDON 1961 22: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 1) 23: MOSCOW 1961 (PART 2) 24: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 2) 25: PENKOVSKY DEBRIEFING (PART 3) 26: WASHINGTON AND MIAMI 1961. 27: CUBA 196128: WASHINGTON AND MIAMI 1962 29: MOSCOW 1962 30: OCTOBER 1962 (PART 1) THE DEVELOPING CRISIS 31: OCTOBER 1962 (PART 2) THE CRISIS DAYS 32: OCTOBER 1962 (PART 3) THE AFTERMATH 33: MOSCOW 1963 (PART 1) 34: WASHINGTON AND LONDON 1963 35: MOSCOW 1963 (PART 2) 36: USA 1963 37: MEXICO CITY 1963 38: DALLAS, OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER 1963 EPILOGUE BIBLIOGRAPHY APPENDIX 1 APPENDIX 2 INDEX Plates Advertisement Copyright.