The full story of the Cold War's secret but very real air battles in which hundreds of combatants lost their lives is revealed in this startling study. It recounts how long before Gary Powers's U-2 spy plane was shot down over the USSR in 1960, an undeclared war was being fought in the stratosphere -- the aerial espionage war between the West and the Soviet Union that included the shoot-down of some 40 Western aircraft and an alarming USAF plan in the 1950s to use the spy flights to provoke World War Ill.
- ISBN10 1557508372
- ISBN13 9781557508379
- Publish Date 1 March 1997
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 7 October 2009
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Naval Institute Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English