Gathered on the Beach

October 1962

By: James Philip

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Gathered on the Beach is the thirteenth and final instalment of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR prequel series of the Timeline 10/27/62 series.

It is October 1962 and the USS Beale swings around her chains at Norfolk, her crew little knowing what part in the coming drama they will play.

The outcome of the Cuban Missiles Crisis hung in the balance right up to the moment, it did not. In the desperate hours as the sides groped for a way out of the hole they had dug for themselves, a single misstep might have been disastrous and to this day most people do not realise that the Cold War very nearly went HOT, as in thermonuclear 'hot'.

In the Timeline 10/27/62 saga the Cuban Missile Crisis goes disastrously wrong and the swinging sixties never happens.

COUNTDOWN TO WAR paints a picture of the times, the attitudes and how easily history might not have been what, it eventually, was…

Come with me on the journey, walking at first and then rushing towards Armageddon with the people who made it, and who did not, into the pages of the Timeline 10/27/62 world that so many of you have explored in the last ten years.

This is the final instalment of the COUNTDOWN TO WAR and midnight is fast approaching…

For my readers who prefer to read the Timeline 10/27/62 books in the chronological order of the overall narrative arc GATHERED ON THE BEACH = 13.