Spy Flights of The Cold War

Here for the first time is the full story of the Cold War's secret but very real war in which hundreds of combatants lost their lives. Long before Gary Powers' U-2 spyplane was shot down over the USSR in 1960, an undeclared war was being fought in the stratosphere. This was the aerial espionage war between the West and the Soviet Union.
Author Paul Lashmar's research has uncovered top secret missions flown by US Air Force and Royal Air Force crews, deep into the Soviet Union. He has interviewed USAF and RAF participants, and the Red Air Force pilots that tried, sometimes successfully, to shoot them down. He has also discovered evidence of an alarming 1950s USAF plan to use these spy flights to provoke a nuclear World War Three which would have wiped the Soviet Union and China from the face of the earth.
New evidence, both documentary and interview, from the former Soviet Union reveals the full extent of political tension created by the spyplane war. From 1950 over 40 Western aircraft were shot down and hundreds of air force officers died or remain missing. The book documents the hunt today for these Cold War MIAs (missing in action).
Spy Flights of the Cold War represents an important contribution to our knowledge of this deadly espionage war.


by Paul Lashmar
Published by Sutton 1996 1st edition. 244pp illustrated, index, appendix, bibliography. 18x25 previous owner's stamp otherwise mint, inc. d/j.







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