Dangerous games : faces, incidents, and casualties of the Cold War / / James E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron

• Autore: Wise James E. <1930->
• Pubblicazione: Annapolis, Maryland : , : Naval Institute Press, , 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (263 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.82/5
• Soggetto topico: Cold War
• Altri autori: BaronScott <1954->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Table 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 ; 10. 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 ; Appendix II: U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Incidents and Casualties During the Cold War Notes ; References; Index ; About the Authors
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Dangerous games
• ISBN: 1-61251-452-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810512803321
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