Armageddon Letters - by James G Blight & Janet M Lang (Paperback)

About the Book

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis recreates the drama of the Cuban Missile Crisis as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved. They poignantly document the rapidly shifting physical and psychological real...

Book Synopsis

The Armageddon Letters: Kennedy, Khrushchev, Castro in the Cuban Missile Crisis recreates the drama of the Cuban Missile Crisis as experienced by the leaders of the three countries directly involved. They poignantly document the rapidly shifting physical and psychological realities each leader faced, allowing the reader to experience the crisis as never before.

Review Quotes

The Armageddon Lettersinnovatively and emotively. . . attempts to reverse the presumed apathy of young people toward nuclear holocaust. . . . [Blight and Lang] succeed as pioneers; their transmedia presentation is a great means of waking up a new generation to history and its lessons. ... Blight draws creative connections that grab our attention. ... the authors achieve their heartfelt intention of saturating us with warnings about a nuclear disaster. This multimedia and transmedia project largely works. . . . We are fortunate that we are sitting here now to read about Armageddon, rather than having experienced it--and that second chance is what Blight and Lang have so cleverly marketed to us.

About the Author

James G. Blight is theCenter for International Governance Innovation Chair in Foreign Policy Development at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo, in Ontario, Canada.

janet M. Lang isresearch professor at the Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.