His book of poetry is buried with him in a shallow grave, and he leaves behind only an inscription carved into the rim of the Fontebranda in honor of the aristocratic Signora Piccolomini who he loved. Knighted in 2002, Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College London, and a Bloomberg Opinion colum­nist.

Pilar Quintana uncovers wounds we didn’t know we had, shows us their beauty, and then throws a handful of salt into them.

His decision to install the missiles and all the Soviet support paraphernalia, including almost 50,000 servicemen, was reckless and impulsive -- and K did not think out the consequences at all. Robert McNamara had a leading role which is all the more striking given his perceived later failure during the Vietnam War. The answers to these questions are revealed in “PICTURES OF THE ABYSS”, a new photographic coffee-table style book by Andrew Firth. British Weird: edited by James Machin, this collection of short British supernatural fiction from 1981 to 1937 displays an unsettling mastery of Weird preoccupations. He has published twenty-nine books, among the most recent of which are Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War (2018); The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-45 (2015); Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 (2013); All Hell Let Loose (2011); Did You Really Shoot the Television?

Pilar Quintana’s novella manages to tackle, with the light I valued very much the fact that the book does not simply focus on the days of the crisis alone, but includes much detail of the political and social aspects leading up to the days of crisis. The English title The Abyss gives a slightly different lead by the evocation of fathomless depths, a likely image of the alchemist's inner journey, which are at the same time a Christian vision of hell, to which his contemporaries may wish to condemn him. Max Hastings deploys his accustomed blend of eye-witness interviews, archive documents and diaries, White House tape recordings, top-down analysis, first to paint word-portraits of the Cold War experiences of Fidel Castro’s Cuba, Nikita Khrushchev’s Russia and Kennedy’s America; then to describe the nail-biting Thirteen Days in which Armageddon beckoned.The magic of this sparse novel is its ability to talk about many things, all of them important, while seemingly talking about something else entirely.

Flashes of color enliven sober warnings about the need for world leaders who can sift through multiple sources of information and back down from a fight when the cost is too great. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. Hastings argues that Kennedy prevented a catastrophic conflict by deciding that this was a bad idea. As well as his vivid written descriptions of the East End, Jack London also photographed a considerable number of evocative scenes to complement the text. In 1967 he was a World Press Institute Fellow in the United States, then stayed to report the 1968 US election.He passes a lifetime as a soldier and survives many engagements including the fearsome Battle of Ceresole, during which he is felled by an arquebus bullet and very nearly dies.