One Minute to Midnight (Dobbs, 2008)
1962 · Resource
Michael Dobbs's hour-by-hour reconstruction of the Cuban Missile Crisis — Black Saturday minute by minute: the stray U-2 over Siberia, the B-59's torpedo, Castro dictating in the Soviet embassy.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1962
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Suez Crisis (1956)