ABYSS: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962, by Max Hastings (HarperCollins, $37.99)
ax Hastings’ newest book has been written in time for the 60th anniversary of the Cuban missile crisis in October and November of 1962, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war. But his timing is better matched by the increasingly bellicose warnings from the Putin regime threatening the tactical use of nukes in the event of a major attack on Russian
