Dangerous Games: faces, incidents and casualties of the Cold War
- Dangerous Games: faces, incidents and casualties of the Cold War
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| Dangerous Games: faces, incidents and casualties of the Cold War |
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| Author(s) |
James E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron |
| Country |
United States |
| Language |
English |
| Genre(s) |
Diary |
| Publisher |
Naval Institute Press |
| Publication date |
2010 |
| Pages |
241 |
| ISBN |
978-1-59114-968-2 |
Introduction
The Cold War was actually a time of hot wars, spying, and a very competitive space race. Authors James Wise and Scott Baron call attention to the political and military volatility of this period by uncovering and relating unknown or long-forgotten incidents of the period. Among them: the murder of a U.S. naval attaché on the Orient Express; an East German soldier's leap to the West in Berlin; two CIA officers' imprisonment by China for twenty years; Capt. 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 Soviet Union putting the first man in space. Through these incidents the authors present a history that brings the intensity of the so-called Cold War to life.[1]
Contents
The book features an inside look at events throughout the Cold War including:
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- Elizabeth Bentley:Red Spy Queen (1945)
- Lt. Gail Halvorsen and the (1948-49)
- James Garner in the Korean War (1950)
- No Kum-Sok: Operation Moolah (1953)
- Mysterious Disappearance of Cdr. Lionel Crabb, RNVR (1961)
- Hans Conrad Schumann: Leap to Freedom into West Berlin (1961)
- Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space (1961)
- Maj. Rudolph Anderson Jr.: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Carl Brashear: An Extraordinary Sailor (1966)
- Commander Bucher and the Second Korean Conflict (1966-69)
- The USS Forrestal Fire (1967)
- The Panmunjon Ax Murders and Operation Paul Bunyan (1976)
- Capt. Bert K. Mizusawa, USA: The Firefight at Panmunjon (1984)
References
- ^ Wise, James (2010). Dangerous Games: faces, incidents and casualties of the Cold War. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press. pp. 241. ISBN 978-1-59114-968-2.
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