Author: Kyril Plaskon
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781507884669
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 218
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From Las Vegas, Mount Charleston looks like little more than a giant gravel mound in the distance, towering 11,916 feet above the neon lights of the entertainment capital of the world. Only a fraction of the nearly 40 million people who visit this 24-hour city ever bother to look west and skyward toward the mountain.The truth is that this very mountain is a silent memorial to fourteen men who died there in a plane crash on November 17, 1955; men who were part of the secret development of the U-2 spy plane, integral to America's success in the Cold War. The United States government was so determined to keep their mission a secret that it lied to the families of the victims, sealed the crash records and even rigged the site with explosives in an effort to obliterate any remnants of their existence.If it weren't for the curiosity of one visitor, the national secret that haunted the mountainside might never have been revealed. In these pages, finally, the story is told.
Author: Kyril Plaskon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615968131
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204
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The Cold War was the longest war in United States history. Because of the nuclear capabilities of our enemy, it was the most dangerous conflict our country ever faced. Those that won this war did so in obscurity. Those that gave their lives in the Cold War have never been properly honored.- Senator Harry ReidSilent Heroes is a stark reminder to the realities of life for those who choose to serve our country in secret covert operations. Countless families have paid this price. It reminds each of us of a debt we owe to men and women for whom we will never know. These are the Silent Heroes of the Cold War.- Francis Gary Powers, Jr., Founder, The Cold War Museum, www.coldwar.orgLittle is known of the CIA's heaviest loss of life in a single aviation incident during the Cold War. The story of the C-54 crash on Mt. Charleston in Nevada is one of many about the heroes of the Cold War, the men and women working at Area 51 and their families, who accepted not knowing where they were or what they were doing. This well written account is typical of the times and sacrifices made to win the Cold War. It emphasizes the need to get these stories told and the challenges facing common citizens inspired to investigate and record the legacy of such heroes.- T. D. Barnes, President, Roadrunners Internationaleand former Special Projects Team, Area 51Ky Plaskon's meticulously researched and deftly chronicled account is a fitting tribute to the thousands of men and women who have toiled in obscurity and secrecy, under restrictions so harsh that they were unable to tell their own families what they did or where they worked. Their sacrifices allowed the rest of us to sleep each night under an unseen umbrella of security and freedom. Today, the name Area 51, aka Dreamland, aka Watertown, The Box, The Ranch, and other less exotic monikers, is known all over the world as a place of mystery and wonder and technological marvels. In reality, it is blistering, sun-baked hellhole in the middle of nowhere, a windblown dust bucket that has been blanketed by radiation, poisoned by toxic fumes, and enveloped by a blanket of secrecy so intense that the very existence of the place has been denied by our government for more than 50 years. Plaskon's book provides a unique glimpse into the character of those who served and into the extraordinary lengths that have been taken to keep the rest of us from finding out what they did on our behalf.- George Knapp, Investigative Reporter, KLAS Channel 8 News
Author: Joseph Shattan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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The Cold War was one of the most dangerous periods in American history, but it ended with one of our greatest victories: the dismantling of the Soviet Empire and discrediting of Communist ideology. Architects of Victory tells how the Cold War was won and it does so in a unique way by focusing on the lives of six great figures who were among those most responsible for Western victory: Harry Truman, Winston Churchill, Konrad Adenauer, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Pope John Paul II, and Ronald Reagan. This scholarly survey of contemporary history and celebration of human greatness provides an indispensable overview of the events and personalities that dominated the second half of the 20th Century.
Author: Richard D. Worley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780805983463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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Author: Kyril D. Plaskon
Publisher: Stephens PressLlc
ISBN: 9781932173604
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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From Las Vegas, Mount Charleston looks like little more than a giant gravel mound in the distance, towering 11,916 feet above the neon lights of the entertainment capital of the world. Only a fraction of the nearly 40 million people who visit this 24-hour city ever bother to look west and skyward toward the mountain. The truth is that this very mountain is a silent memorial to fourteen men who died there in a plane crash on November 17, 1955; men who were part of the secret development of the U-2 spy plane, integral to America's success in the Cold War. The United States government was so determined to keep their mission a secret that it lied to the families of the victims, sealed the crash records and even rigged the site with explosives in an effort to obliterate any remnants of their existence. If it weren't for the curiosity of one visitor, the national secret that haunted the mountainside might never have been revealed. In these pages, finally, the story is told.
Author: Edward Lee Smith Lt. Col. Ret.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532009828
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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When author Edward Lee Smith set out to write about his life as an African American soldier and teacher in America during the tumultuous twentieth century, he had a very personal mission in mind. He needed to confront his demons. Smith and his twin brother, Fred, encountered some of the bloodiest combat in the Korean War as ri emen with the Seventh Infantry Division of the US Army. In Forgotten Heroes, he shares his life storyfrom his birth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; to growing up in North Carolina during the Great Depression under the oppressive Jim Crow laws that pervaded the South; to his relatively happy teen years during World War II; to the bloody combat in Korea during the countero ensive of 1951; to joining the National Guard and working his way up to lieutenant colonel. As an African American of advanced age, Smith shares how he lived through Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, war, the civil rights movement, economic booms and busts, the birth of rock n roll, the free love and drugs of the 1960s, the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., the womens liberation movement, the tech bubble, and the Great Recession.
Author: Tom Johnson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781937769215
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Author: Benn Steil
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198757913
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 621
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Traces the history of the Marshall Plan and the efforts to reconstruct western Europe as a bulwark against communist authoritarianism during a two-year period that saw the collapse of postwar U.S.-Soviet relations and the beginning of the Cold War.
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Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Duncan White
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062449826
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 569
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In this brilliant account of the literary war within the Cold War, novelists and poets become embroiled in a dangerous game of betrayal, espionage, and conspiracy at the heart of the vicious conflict fought between the Soviet Union and the West During the Cold War, literature was both sword and noose. Novels, essays, and poems could win the hearts and minds of those caught between the competing creeds of capitalism and communism. They could also lead to blacklisting, exile, imprisonment, or execution for their authors if they offended those in power. The clandestine intelligence services of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union recruited secret agents and established vast propaganda networks devoted to literary warfare. But the battles were personal, too: friends turned on one another, lovers were split by political fissures, artists were undermined by inadvertent complicities. And while literary battles were fought in print, sometimes the pen was exchanged for a gun, the bookstore for the battlefield. In Cold Warriors, Duncan White vividly chronicles how this ferocious intellectual struggle was waged on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Among those involved were George Orwell, Stephen Spender, Mary McCarthy, Graham Greene, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, John le Carré, Anna Akhmatova, Richard Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Boris Pasternak, Gioconda Belli, and Václav Havel. Here, too, are the spies, government officials, military officers, publishers, politicians, and critics who helped turn words into weapons at a time when the stakes could not have been higher. Drawing upon years of archival research and the latest declassified intelligence, Cold Warriors is both a gripping saga of prose and politics, and a welcome reminder that--at a moment when ignorance is all too frequently celebrated and reading is seen as increasingly irrelevant--writers and books can change the world.
