From The Brink

Download or read book The Brink written by Marc Ambinder and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An informative and often enthralling book…in the appealing style of Tom Clancy” (Kirkus Reviews) about the 1983 war game that triggered a tense, brittle period of nuclear brinkmanship between the United States and the former Soviet Union. What happened in 1983 to make the Soviet Union so afraid of a potential nuclear strike from the United States that they sent mobile ICBMs (intercontinental ballistic missiles) into the field, placing them on a three-minute alert Marc Ambinder explains the anxious period between the United States and the Soviet Union from 1982 to 1984, with the “Able Archer ’83” war game at the center of the tension. With astonishing and clarifying new details, he recounts the scary series of the close encounters that tested the limits of ordinary humans and powerful leaders alike. Ambinder provides a comprehensive and chilling account of the nuclear command and control process, from intelligence warnings to the composition of the nuclear codes themselves. And he affords glimpses into the secret world of a preemptive electronic attack that scared the Soviet Union into action. Ambinder’s account reads like a thriller, recounting the spy-versus-spy games that kept both countries—and the world—in check. From geopolitics in Moscow and Washington, to sweat-caked soldiers fighting in the trenches of the Cold War, to high-stakes war games across NATO and the Warsaw Pact, “Ambinder’s account of a serious threat of global annihilation…is spellbinding…a masterpiece of recent history” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). The Brink serves as the definitive intelligence, nuclear, and national security history of one of the most precarious times in recent memory and “shows the consequences of nuclear buildups, sometimes-careless language, and nervous leaders. Now, more than ever, those consequences matter” (USA TODAY).

Download or read book Back from the Brink written by Alistair Darling and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alistair Darling's long-awaited book will be one of the most reviewed, widely discussed, and saleable political memoirs of recent years. In the late summer of 2007, shares of Northern Rock went into free-fall, causing a run on the bank - the first in over 150 years. Northern Rock proved to be only the first. Twelve months later, as the world was engulfed in the worst banking crisis for more than a century, one of its largest banks, RBS, came within hours of collapse. Back from the Brink tells the gripping story of Alistair Darling's one thousand days in Number 11 Downing Street. As Chancellor, he had to avert the collapse of RBS hours before the cash machines would have ceased to function; at the eleventh hour, he stopped Barclays from acquiring Lehman Brothers in order to protect UK taxpayers; he used anti-terror legislation to stop Icelandic banks from withdrawing funds from Britain. From crisis talks in Washington, to dramatic meetings with the titans of international banking, to dealing with the massive political and economic fallout in the UK, Darling places the reader in the rooms where the destinies of millions weighed heavily on the shoulders of a few. His book is also a candid account of life in the Downing Street pressure cooker and his relationship with Gordon Brown during the last years of New Labor. Back from the Brink is a vivid and immediate depiction of the British government's handling of an unprecedented global financial catastrophe. Alistair Darling's knowledge and understanding provide a unique perspective on the events that rocked international capitalism. It is also a vital historical document.

Download or read book Back from the Brink written by Donald Roy Catherall and published by Bantam. This book was released on 1992 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Post Traumatic Stress Disorder was originally diagnosed in Vietnam veterans, but today experts are considering the same symptoms and healing strategies in cases of death, rape, job loss, fatal accident, or childhood abuse. Dr. Catherall's years of work with trauma victims has revealed that the family is often the key to healing.

Download or read book Back from the Brink written by Graeme Cowan and published by Graeme Cowan. This book was released on 2007 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title discusses with well-known and everyday Australians about their personal journey of enduring and overcoming depression. Written in a question and answer format, the book offers a raw and immediate format that strikes straight to the heart. The stories show just how real and prevalent depression is!

Download or read book From the Brink of Death & the Gates of Hell written by Joseph Hentosz and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English family tragic life of living hell. After we sailed from Liverpool England to Warsaw poland to live in our mother, Polish husband and our Polish Father. Tiny Polish Village of Treblinka. Our home was a one room rat infested. Cold damp cellar with no electricity. Lighting-heating-washing or cooking facilities only old rotten furniture. The German soldiers had left behind at the end of World War Two.

Download or read book The Brink's Truck Burst Open on Wall Street! A Holistic Approach to Finding the Easy Money in Common Stocks written by Jay Walker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about how to outperform the stock market, at reduced risk. It is written in a straightforward style so the average person will be able to use the same tools and techniques used by sophisticated Wall Street investors.

Download or read book On the Brink written by Paul Randolph and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outside looking in, it appears as if architect Paul Randolph and his wife, Brenda, have it all. They've lived a comfortable life in the same house on Songbird Lane in New Orleans East with their two children, nine-year-old Jason and seven-year-old Janie, for the last ten years. But Paul's life is a lie. None of his dreams of a vine-covered cottage with a little picket fence are anywhere near reality. He feels trapped in a loveless marriage and is emotionally unable to have an affair. Paul is not sexually attracted to women, and he is frightened to make a sexual advance on a man for fear the man will react unfavorably, or even violently. On the Brink follows Paul's journey as he addresses the emotional and psychological aspects of his sexuality. He is torn between his love for his children, his societal position, and a desperate desire for integrity. Weary of suppressing his true self, Paul deliberates his fate, his only desire being wholeness.