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Dangerous Games - Faces, Incidents, and Casualties of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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Dangerous Games - Faces, Incidents, and Casualties of the Cold War (Hardcover)
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The Cold War was only cold in that the major powers, the U.S. and
the Soviet Union, did not engage in a nuclear war. But during that
period (1945-1991) there were wars, spying, shoot downs of numerous
reconnaissance aircraft, captures of U.S. military personnel,
murders, defections, a space race with men put in orbit and an
eventual moon landing.
Dangerous Games: Faces, Incidents and Casualties of the Cold War is
a return to that era. This book contains many unknown and
long-since forgotten stories of that period. Some of the Cold War
incidents covered include:
- The Marines in China;
- The first Cold War downing of an American Aircraft in the Baltic
Sea;
- Death on the Orient Express (murder of a U.S. Naval Attache
Officer);
- Actor James Garner's Front Line Army Experience South of the Yalu
River during the Korean War;
- Soviet Spy Betty Bentley Who Triggered an Earthquake in American
Politics;
- No Kum-Sok, the North Korean pilot who Defected to South Korea
Delivering the First MIG Fighter to the West;
- CIA Officers Downey & Feacteau Who Spent 20 Years in a
Chinese Prison;
- East German Soldier Hans Conrad Schumann and His Iconic leap to
the West in Berlin;
- The Mysterious Death of British Frogman "Buster" Crabb;
- Yuri Gagarin, First Man in Space;
- Commander Lloyd Bucher and the Second Korean Conflict;
- The USS Forrestal Fire.
With the resurgence of Russia, and its aggressive handling of the
Georgian situation, Eastern European countries have become
increasingly alarmed that Russia is attempting to recreate a sphere
of influence over satellite states of the former Soviet Union.
To add to the mounting tension with the West, Russia in its attempt
to become a world power once again, has already begun to show its
flag in the Western Hemisphere.
Considering that we may be facing a second Cold War, this book is a
timely reminder of some notable incidents from the intense
political period following the end of the Second World War.
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