Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations Against the USSR

Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations Against the USSR
ISBN-10
161251362X
ISBN-13
9781612513621
Series
Twilight Warriors
Category
History
Pages
288
Language
English
Published
2013-06-11
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Author
Curtis L Peebles

Description

From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy battlefronts of the Cold War, spanning the postwar decades with one fascinating account after another. The known and not-so well known are woven together to provide the big picture: failed early attempts to set up spy cells behind the Iron Curtain (confounded by the agent Kim Philby), the actual CIA plane that secretly appeared in the James Bond film "Thunderball," Operation Mongoose, clandestine "airlines," and the gutsy breed who took to the skies as airborne spies. This is a sweeping, globe-trotting account of covert ops in the post-war era that reads like an epic secret history.

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