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(More customer reviews)Over the past ten years, much of the story of aerial spying against the Soviet Union by the U.S. and allies has been declassified. "Shadow Flights" is a concise, readable compendium of this material. Some of the book is a repeat of material in the author's "Dark Eagles" (also recommended), but the emphasis of "Shadow Flights" also includes operational factors and Cold War politics for a fuller picture. In particular, Dwight Eisenhower comes across as both more intelligent and more thoughtful of the consequences of overflights of the USSR than he is usually given credit for -- and much more so than most of his military and CIA subordinates.
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In the dark days of the Cold War the American military conducted a secret air war against the Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc. Flown by a handful of American crews, these photographic and intelligence gathering missions were a well-kept secret and unknown to the world at large. Initially, in the 1940s and 1950s, the Americans used converted bombers and transports to carry out these dangerous operations. The price of failure was high and unsuccessful missions were hushed up or reported as 'training accidents'. Later, the US developed the famed U-2 spyplane, an aircraft designed to fly higher than any other and thus ideal for the sinister world of espionage. The downing of Francis Gary Power's U-2 however blew the lid off the supersecret aerial war and heralded a new chapter in the history of the Cold War. Curtis Peebles, having investigated both American and Soviet sources, tackles this controversial issue in a cool and methodical manner, throwing light on a still secret and intriguing aspect of Super Power relations.
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