JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY to discuss “ONE HELL OF A GAMBLE” DB46210 by A. A. Fursenko and Timothy J. Naftali. 08/01/2023

Our August book was written by two prominent Historians, One Russian and the other American, who took advantage of the demise of the Soviet Union and thaw in the Cold War to access KGB AND OTHER Soviet and American files in 1990 to find out what truly happened. While it cleared up a number of issues some were rather frightening such as how close we came to a nuclear war. Also, it revealed JFK’s repeated private attempts to reach a détente with Khrushchev before the Missile Crisis.. TITLE: One Hell of a Gamble: Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958to 1964 AUTHOR: Aleksandr Fursenko and Timothy Naftali DB46210 Bookshare link: https://www.bookshare.org/browse/book/1562841?returnPath=L3NlYXJjaD9tb2R1bGVOYW1lPXB1YmxpYyZrZXl3b3JkPW9uZSUyQmhlbGwlMkJvZiUyQmElMkJnYW1ibGU