Dangerous Games
Faces, Incidents, and Casualties of the Cold War
Nonfiction, History, Military, United States
| Author: | Scott Baron, James E. Wise, Jr | ISBN: | 9781612514529 |
| Publisher: | Naval Institute Press | Publication: | September 2, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Naval Institute Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | Scott Baron, James E. Wise, Jr |
| ISBN: | 9781612514529 |
| Publisher: | Naval Institute Press |
| Publication: | September 2, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Naval Institute Press |
| Language: | English |
Reminding readers that the Cold War was actually a time of hot wars, spying, murders, defections, shoot downs of reconnaissance aircraft, and a space race, the authors uncover some unknown or long-forgotten incidents of the period. Among them, the murder of a U.S. naval attache on the Orient Express, an East German soldier s leap to the West in Berlin, two CIA officers twenty years in a Chinese prison, Cpt. Bert Mizusawa s rescue under fire of a Soviet defector in the Korean DMZ, a North Korean pilot s defection in a MiG fighter, the USS Forrestal fire, and the Soviets putting the first man in space.
Reminding readers that the Cold War was actually a time of hot wars, spying, murders, defections, shoot downs of reconnaissance aircraft, and a space race, the authors uncover some unknown or long-forgotten incidents of the period. Among them, the murder of a U.S. naval attache on the Orient Express, an East German soldier s leap to the West in Berlin, two CIA officers twenty years in a Chinese prison, Cpt. Bert Mizusawa s rescue under fire of a Soviet defector in the Korean DMZ, a North Korean pilot s defection in a MiG fighter, the USS Forrestal fire, and the Soviets putting the first man in space.
