By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War

By (author): "William E. Burrows"
Publish Date: October 2001
By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War
ISBN0091795117
ISBN139780091795115
AsinBy Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War
Original titleBy Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War
In a determined effort to collect intelligence and find targets for nuclear war, the United States flew continuous missions against the Communist bloc during the Cold War. Cloaked in the utmost secrecy, the only hint of these operations came when an aircraft was shot down. For the first time, award-winning historian William E. Burrows reveals that the Russians, Chinese, and North Koreans captured, tortured, imprisoned, and killed many of the airmen flying these clandestine missions, while the crews' loved ones grieved and the government looked away.