Operation Jiu Jitsu
The Secret Spy Flights Over the Soviet Union That Saved the World From Nuclear War
Sinopsis
Operation Jiu Jitsu reveals how British and American secret services joined forces during the Cold War in a covert alliance to map the USSR and establish its long range nuclear weapon capacity. Its hard to imagine today, but no reliable Western maps of the region existed after World War Two.
With the pace of a thriller, Tom Whipple brings this vital moment of Cold War history vividly to life. From allied troops hunting down Russian maps in abandoned German outposts in 1945 to the pilots of the secret Russian overflights taking aerial photographs of Russian sites while under fire, ending with Gary Powers being shot down and imprisoned by the Russians as a spy in 1960, this is the story of the joint US UK air force mission that became a CIA, quasi-civilian, secret operation.
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Ficha Técnica
Editorial: Transworld Digital
ISBN: 9781529976731
Idioma: Inglés
Fecha de lanzamiento: 20/05/2027
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