Michael Dobbs
Michael Dobbs was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, and educated at the University of York, with fellowships at Princeton and Harvard. He is a reporter for the Washington Post, where he spent much of his career as a foreign correspondent covering the collapse of communism. His Down with Big Brother: The Fall of the Soviet Empire was a runner-up for the 1997 PEN award for nonfiction. Mr. Dobbs lives in Bethesda, Maryland.
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One Minute to Midnight
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | History - United States - 20th Century
978-1-4000-7891-2 (1-4000-7891-1)
June 2, 2009 | $20.00
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we...
Written by Michael Dobbs
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | History - United States - 20th Century
978-1-4000-7891-2 (1-4000-7891-1)
June 2, 2009 | $20.00
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we...
One Minute to Midnight
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | History - United States - 20th Century
978-1-4159-5458-4 (1-4159-5458-5)
June 3, 2008 | $28.00
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | History - United States - 20th Century
978-1-4159-5458-4 (1-4159-5458-5)
June 3, 2008 | $28.00
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce...
One Minute to Midnight
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf | History - United States - 20th Century
978-1-4000-4358-3 (1-4000-4358-1)
June 3, 2008 | $33.95
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce...
Written by Michael Dobbs
Hardcover | 448 pages | Knopf | History - United States - 20th Century
978-1-4000-4358-3 (1-4000-4358-1)
June 3, 2008 | $33.95
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be sliding inexorably toward a nuclear conflict over the placement of missiles in Cuba. Veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs has pored over previously untapped American, Soviet, and Cuban sources to produce...
One Minute to Midnight
eBook | 352 pages | Vintage | History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-307-26936-2 (0-307-26936-1)
June 3, 2008 | $20.00
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we...
Written by Michael Dobbs
eBook | 352 pages | Vintage | History - United States - 20th Century
978-0-307-26936-2 (0-307-26936-1)
June 3, 2008 | $20.00
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union came to the brink of nuclear conflict over the placement of Soviet missiles in Cuba. In this hour-by-hour chronicle of those tense days, veteran Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs reveals just how close we...
Saboteurs
eBook | 352 pages | Vintage | History - Germany
978-0-307-42755-7 (0-307-42755-2)
December 18, 2007 | $19.95
Shortly after America’s entry into World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered an extensive sabotage campaign against the United States to disrupt the production of tanks and airplanes and blow up bridges and railroads. Eight German saboteurs were dispatched across the Atlantic by U-boat, one team landing in Amagansett, Long Island, the...
Written by Michael Dobbs
eBook | 352 pages | Vintage | History - Germany
978-0-307-42755-7 (0-307-42755-2)
December 18, 2007 | $19.95
Shortly after America’s entry into World War II, Adolf Hitler ordered an extensive sabotage campaign against the United States to disrupt the production of tanks and airplanes and blow up bridges and railroads. Eight German saboteurs were dispatched across the Atlantic by U-boat, one team landing in Amagansett, Long Island, the...
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Saboteurs
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage | History - Germany
978-1-4000-3042-2 (1-4000-3042-0)
February 8, 2005 | $19.95
In 1942, Hitler's Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure. It was a plot that proved historically remarkable for two reasons: the surprising extent of its success and the astounding nature of its failure. Soon after two U-Boats packed with...
Written by Michael Dobbs
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Vintage | History - Germany
978-1-4000-3042-2 (1-4000-3042-0)
February 8, 2005 | $19.95
In 1942, Hitler's Nazi regime trained eight operatives for a mission to infiltrate America and do devastating damage to its infrastructure. It was a plot that proved historically remarkable for two reasons: the surprising extent of its success and the astounding nature of its failure. Soon after two U-Boats packed with...
Also available as an
eBook.
Down with Big Brother
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage | History - Former Soviet Republics
978-0-679-75151-9 (0-679-75151-3)
January 12, 1998 | $21.95
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led...
Written by Michael Dobbs
Trade Paperback | 528 pages | Vintage | History - Former Soviet Republics
978-0-679-75151-9 (0-679-75151-3)
January 12, 1998 | $21.95
"One of the great stories of our time . . . a wonderful anecdotal history of a great drama."
--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review
As Washington Post correspondent in Moscow, Warsaw, and Yugoslavia in the final decade of the Soviet empire, Michael Dobbs had a ringside seat to the extraordinary events that led...
