LEADER 03558nam 2200589 450 001 9910810512803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-61251-452-9 035 $a(CKB)2670000000412962 035 $a(EBL)1340940 035 $a(OCoLC)857800394 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000983036 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12422132 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000983036 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10987325 035 $a(PQKB)10139617 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1340940 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10767346 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL679496 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1340940 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000412962 100 $a20091210d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDangerous games $efaces, incidents, and casualties of the Cold War /$fJames E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron 210 1$aAnnapolis, Maryland :$cNaval Institute Press,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (263 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-48214-4 311 $a1-59114-968-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aTable of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction ; 1. First Blood: The USMC in China, 1945-49; 2. Elizabeth Bentley: Red Spy Queen, 1945; 3. Lt. Gail Halvorsen and the Berlin Airlift, 1948-49; 4. The First Cold War Shootdown, 1950 ; 5. Actor James Garner in the Korean War, 1950 ; 6. Capt. Eugene S. Karpe, USN: Death on the Orient Express, 1950 ; 7. CIA Officers John T. Downey and Richard G. Fecteau: Prisoners in China for Two Decades, 1952-73; 8. No Kum-Sok: Operation Moolah, 1953; 9. Mysterious Disappearance of Commander Lionel Crabb, RNVR, 1956 327 $a10. Hans Conrad Schumann: Leap to Freedom into West Berlin, 196111. Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space, 1961; 12. Maj. Rudolph Anderson Jr.: Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962; 13. The Palomares Incident, 1966; 14. Carl Brashear: An Extraordinary Sailor, 1966; 15. Commander Bucher and the Second Korean Conflict, 1966-69; 16. The USS Forrestal Fire, 1967; 17. The Panmunjon Ax Murders and Operation Paul Bunyan, 1976; 18. Capt. Bert K. Mizusawa, USA: The Firefight at Panmunjon, 1984; 19. Ssgt. Gregory Fronius and the El Salvador Insurgency, 1987; Appendix I: Aircraft Downed During the Cold War 327 $aAppendix II: U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Incidents and Casualties During the Cold War Notes ; References; Index ; About the Authors 330 $aReminding 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 606 $aCold War$vAnecdotes 606 $aCold War$vBiography$vAnecdotes 615 0$aCold War 615 0$aCold War 676 $a909.82/5 700 $aWise$b James E.$f1930-$01670225 701 $aBaron$b Scott$f1954-$01670226 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810512803321 996 $aDangerous games$94031952 997 $aUNINA