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

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.