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Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. That Saturday, 27 October, was, and remains, the closest the world has come to nuclear holocaust - the blackest day of a horrendous week.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Alive Assassination Blackest Closest Come Crisis Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Day Doomsday Everybody Holocaust Horrendous Like Missile Nuclear October Remains Remember Saturday Then Week Were Where World Jfk

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Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovsky's role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military men's residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchev's 'blink'.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Among Army Blink Confirmed Crisis Cuban Cuban Missile Crisis Former Generals Humiliation Knowledge Many Men Military Missile Moscow Most Officers Over Past Role Senior Sense Soviet Them Thoroughly Times Years Kgb

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There is a widespread view among the liberal intelligentsia to the effect that Henry Kissinger, U.S. National Security Advisor from 1969 to 1975 and Secretary of State from 1973 to 1977, was a bad man. That may even be an understatement. In this fashionable consensus, he is not just a bad man: he is a war criminal.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Advisor Among Bad Bad Man Consensus Criminal Effect Even Fashionable He Henry Just Kissinger Liberal Man May National National Security Secretary Security State Understatement View War Widespread

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Shortly after Pearl Harbor, FDR committed a most visionary act: He appointed a Harvard historian to write the official account of the U.S. Navy in World War II. Samuel Eliot Morison was given the rank of lieutenant commander, with the right to interview anyone of whatever status.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Account Act After Anyone Appointed Commander Committed Given Harbor Harvard He Historian Interview Most Navy Official Pearl Pearl Harbor Rank Right Samuel Status Visionary War Whatever World World War World War Ii Write

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In the 17th century, Barbados was regarded in London as 'the brightest jewel in the English crown'.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Barbados Brightest Century Crown English Jewel London Regarded

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Though not the longest battle in history - that was Verdun - Stalingrad was certainly the most pitiless, an adjective that reappears regularly in Mr. Beevor's classic work.

~Alistair Horne

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Mrs. Miniver was an ordinary middle-class English housewife, a character created by Jan Struther when she was commissioned by the 'Times of London' to write a weekly 'cheer-up' article in 1937.

~Alistair Horne

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In 1939, Fitzroy Maclean, a gangly Highland aristocrat in his early 30s, was serving as a British diplomat in the U.S.S.R. Disgusted by the Soviet show trials, he quit the Foreign Service and would go on to serve with Tito's partisans fighting the Germans in Yugoslavia.

~Alistair Horne

Topics: Aristocrat British Diplomat Disgusted Early Fighting Foreign Gangly Germans Go He His Quit Serve Service Serving Show Soviet Trials Would Yugoslavia

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A triumph in which Kissinger could claim to have played some little part, in the presidential elections that November, President Richard Nixon had won the second greatest landslide in American history. Forty-seven million Americans had voted for him - and for his and Kissinger's policies - representing more than 60 percent of all the votes cast.

~Alistair Horne

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Though Washington had closed down for the holidays, the next day, December 26, a key message from Hanoi brought Kissinger racing back to his office. It was the signal the White House had anxiously been awaiting; it was also the day of one of the biggest raids by the giant B-52s.

~Alistair Horne

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Historian

Born: November 9th, 1925

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