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Twilight Warriors: Covert Air Operations Against the USSR Hardcover – May 1, 2005

by Curtis L Peebles (Author)

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From the start of the Cold War to the fall of Saigon, from the Congo to Tibet, from the Bay of Pigs to North Vietnam and Nicaragua, here is a comprehensive overview of U.S. air-supported covert operations against the Soviet bloc. Twilight Warriors brings a sense of continuity to the shifting, shadowy battlefronts of the Cold War, spanning the postwar decades with one fascinating account after another. The known and not-so well known are woven together to provide the big picture: failed early attempts to set up spy cells behind the Iron Curtain (confounded by the agent Kim Philby), the actual CIA plane that secretly appeared in the James Bond film Thunderball, Operation Mongoose, clandestine airlines, and the gutsy breed who took to the skies as airborne spies. This is a sweeping, globe-trotting account of covert ops in the post-war era that reads like an epic secret history.

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Curtis Peebles is an aerospace historian and author, coauthor, or editor of fourteen books. He has appeared on such television shows as "NOVA," "Unsolved History," and "Tactical to Practical."

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Curtis Peebles is the author of The Corona Project and 11 other books on aerospace history. He is with the NASA History Office at the Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards AFB.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Naval Institute Press; First Edition (May 1, 2005)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1591146607
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1591146605
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.34 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

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Bonner '62

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Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2010

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Perilous Missions: Civil Air Transport and CIA Covert Operations in Asia This is an excellent work on CIA air proprietaries during the cold war. As one would expect he covers Air America in SEA but gives well deserved space to the air ops in the Congo, Tibet and the ill fated missions into the USSR. The other book I recommend includes air ops but also talks about the business side of running these companies. Both books are very well written and include a detailed description of the various missions.

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James W. Burns

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Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2014

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Insight to covert operations that I had not know about.

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John R Henry

A lot of it feels like padding. This book would be better were it ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2017

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I thought this book was mainly about covert air operations and it does cover a lot of this. It also covers a lot of other covert operations that were not air related. A lot of it feels like padding.

This book would be better were it half as long.

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John Matlock

We Were Luckier than we Knew

Reviewed in the United States on June 4, 2005

As you might guess from the title, this book talks about airborne operations conducted against the Soviet Bloc during the cold war. It includes not only operations against Russia, but also the covert operations during the Viet Nam war, operations against Cuba, etc.

As I was reading this book I couldn't help but think of the older book "Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage" by Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew, and Annette Lawrence Drew.

I didn't realize just how close we and the Russians were going at each other during the Cold War. We are very, very lucky that some of these incidents didn't turn out to be really nasty.

The one thing that I kept expecting in this book was more on the RB-47 intrusions into Russia during the late 1950's and early 1960's. It is my understanding that about 40 US planes were shot down with a loss of a couple of hundred men.

One thing that I really liked about the book was the summary chapter at the end. His analysis of what we did, what the Russians were doing and the results were surprising and very informative. I'd like to see this part expanded another fifty pages or so in the next edition.

Meanwhile it's still a great book, get it and "Blind Man's Bluff."

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Anitat

Good overview, nice style

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2014

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this book may give you an interesting perspective on covert operations you'll see things that you never thought about America very interesting

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I. R. Beste

Excellent overview history

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2005

"Twilight Warriors" is an excellent overview history of air-supported special operations against the Soviet Union, the People's Republic of China, North Vietnam and other hostile locations during the Cold War up through the early 1970s. The author shows how the operations were conceived, how they worked (or didn't, in too many cases) and what the results were. He provides a good discussion of Air America and the use of non-US nationals in these operations such as Nationalist Chinese, Tibetans and Cubans. He also mentions why certain aircraft were chosen for certain missions. Peebles compares the success of the Special Operations Executive and the OSS in World War Two with the failures during the Cold War, and his summary of the meager results of these later covert operations is straight-forward and honest: while the operations might have had some greater degree of success, the very nature of the totalitarian states they were aimed at presented a huge obstacle in infiltrating outsiders who could effectively create and sustain a resistance movement. For readers who want to know more about a particular operation, the bibliography is a great starting place. My chief reservations about this title are (1) a lack of maps (not the author's fault!) and (2) no discussion of whether there any new air-supported covert ops after the fall of South Vietnam--did they stop completely, or is sufficient information lacking to say anything about them? Despite those (minor) criticisms, this book is highly recommended, especially for libraries who may not have much else on Cold War covert operations.

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Brian Curdy

Bon livre.

Reviewed in France on September 17, 2019

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Mieux comprendre la guerre froide.

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