Christopher Andrew

The edge of destruction

How the world escaped the Cuban missile crisis – and what Britain would have done if it hadn’t

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Christopher Andrew
Professor Christopher Andrew is Emeritus Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge. His most recent book is The Secret World: A History of Intelligence. His next book (with Julius Green) is Stars and Spies: Intelligence Operations and the Entertainment Business

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