Dangerous Games: faces, incidents and casualties of the Cold War

Introduction

The Cold War was actually a time of hot wars, spying, and a very competitive space race. Authors James Wise and Scott Baron call attention to the political and military volatility of this period by uncovering and relating unknown or long-forgotten incidents of the period. Among them: the murder of a U.S. naval attaché on the Orient Express; an East German soldier's leap to the West in Berlin; two CIA officers' imprisonment by China for twenty years; Capt. 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 Soviet Union putting the first man in space. Through these incidents the authors present a history that brings the intensity of the so-called Cold War to life.^[1]

Contents

The book features an inside look at events throughout the Cold War including:

Elizabeth Bentley:Red Spy Queen (1945)

Lt. Gail Halvorsen and the (1948-49)

James Garner in the Korean War (1950)

No Kum-Sok: Operation Moolah (1953)

Mysterious Disappearance of Cdr. Lionel Crabb, RNVR (1961)

Hans Conrad Schumann: Leap to Freedom into West Berlin (1961)

Yuri Gagarin: First Man in Space (1961)

Maj. Rudolph Anderson Jr.: Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)

Carl Brashear: An Extraordinary Sailor (1966)

Commander Bucher and the Second Korean Conflict (1966-69)

The USS Forrestal Fire (1967)

The Panmunjon Ax Murders and Operation Paul Bunyan (1976)

Capt. Bert K. Mizusawa, USA: The Firefight at Panmunjon (1984)

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