Menu
Top of the pile
83
/100
I Index Overall Rating
Readers
75/100Critics
81/100Scholars
92/100Author:
Serhii Plokhy
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
April 13, 2021
An account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of nuclear apocalypse.
What The Reviewers Say
The story is extraordinary, and Plokhy is an accomplished narrator.
There have been scores of books, some of them very good, about the Cuban missile crisis and several documentary movies of varying quality. But Nuclear Folly is arguably the most authoritative and cleverly written work on the subject yet produced.
Besides enjoying a galloping great read steeped in historiographical rigor and distilling nearly 60 years’ worth of memoirs, official and unofficial analysis, and declassified documents, readers of a certain age opening Serhii Plokhy’s exacting and propulsive Nuclear Folly may experience a weird tangle of recollection interspersing flashes of national unity rooted in existential dread and nostalgia for literate presidents.
Serhii Plokhy has written a new account of the incident that brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.
