Dangerous Games: Faces, Incidents, and Casualties of the Cold War
- ISBN-10
- 1612514529
- ISBN-13
- 9781612514529
- Series
- Dangerous Games
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 256
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-09-02
- Publisher
- Naval Institute Press
- Authors
- James Wise, Scott Baron
Description
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.
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