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Shadow flights : America's secret air war against the Soviet Union
Author
Title
Shadow flights : America's secret air war against the Soviet Union / Curtis Peebles.
ISBN
0891417001
9780891417002
Published
Novato, CA : Presidio Press, ©2000.
Physical Description
vi, 322 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Local Notes
BEIN Pforzheimer Intelligence 8202: From the library of Walter L. Pforzheimer.
Summary
Recounts the early years of the Cold War when the U.S. sought to learn USSR military strength through border flights and overflights by the famed U-2 spyplanes.
Other formats
Online version: Peebles, Curtis. Shadow flights. Novato, CA : Presidio Press, ©2000
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 28, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 290-303) and index.
Contents
1 Early Covert Overflights 4
2 Covert Overflights Under Eisenhower 40
3 The Birth of the U-2 62
4 Genetrix and Homerun 106
5 Early U-2 Overflights 130
6 Soft Touch 164
7 The Missile Gap 195
8 From Touchdown to Grand Slam 231
9 Reflections on a Secret War 278.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
History.
Also listed under
Walter L. Pforzheimer Intelligence Collection (Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
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