It was the most spectacular display of brinkmanship in the Cold War era. InOctober 1962 President Kennedy risked inciting a nuclear war to prevent theSoviet Uni... » 

It was the most spectacular display of brinkmanship in the Cold War era. InOctober 1962 President Kennedy risked inciting a nuclear war to prevent theSoviet Union from establishing missile bases in Cuba. The risk however wasfar greater than Kennedy realized. October Fury uncovers startling informationabout the Cuban missile crisis and the potentially calamitous confrontationbetween U.S. Navy destroyers and Soviet submarines in the Atlantic. PeterHuchthausen who served as a junior ensign aboard one of the destroyersreveals that a single shot fired by any U.S. warship could have led to animmediate nuclear response from the Soviet submarines. As absorbing anddetailed as a Tom Clancy novel this reallife suspense thriller is destined tobecome a classic of naval literature. «