Berlin 1961: Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Most Dangerous Place on Earth
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (928 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B0052EM93A |
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| Number of Pages | : | 319 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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Robert Carver said Detailed look at the '61 Berlin Crisis but with bias. I enjoyed reading Frederick Kempe's detailed narrative about how the Berlin Crisis unfolded and the perspectives of the Kennedy Administration, Khrushchev and the Soviets, East Germany's Walter Ulbricht, & West Germany's Konrad Adenauer. Kempe provides the background for the situation JFK inherited when he came into office in January of 1961 and then how . Hannibal said An exciting read, but unbalanced & too hawkish.. This is a wonderful read, and the only reason that I can't give it a full five stars is that Kempe consistently shows a too hawkish bias and takes too many cheap shots at Kennedy which doesn't give the reader the balanced reportage one had a right to expect in a more objective account. Having lived through these times myself, I found then and now the same. Let them come to Berlin I was too young to appreciate events that unfolded in Berlin in 1961 but I knew they were momentous. This great book provides context to the many crises that arose here between East and West and the great tensions it generated. It does not paint a flattering portrait of the young, inexperienced, and macho-obscessed JFK. Fascinating story.
A former Wall Street Journal editor and the current president and CEO of the Atlantic Council, Frederick Kempe draws on recently released documents and personal interviews to re-create the powder keg that was 1961 Berlin. In Cold War Berlin, the United States and the Soviet Union stand nose to nose, with the possibility of nuclear war just one misstep away.