Shadow flights
Subtitle: America's secret air war against the Soviet Union
By: Curtis Peebles.
Publisher: Presidio Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Novato, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
Subjects: Air warfare -- History.; Espionage, American -- Soviet Union -- History.; Cold War.; United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States.; United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989.; United States -- Military relations -- Soviet Union.; Soviet Union -- Military relations -- United States.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 290-303) and index.