Philip Zelikow Bücher

"A deeply researched international history of how a divided world ended and our present one was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing." --Back cover.

During the Cuban missile crisis the United States twice came to the brink of attacking Soviet military units, which were equipped for nuclear retaliation. This book presents the transcripts of tape recordings of the situation secretly made by President Kennedy.

During a pivotal few months in the middle of the First World War all sides- Germany, Britain, and America-believed the war could be concluded. Peace at the end of 1916 would have saved millions of lives and changed the course of history utterly.