Key Moments in Espionage: Spy Ships, Failures, & the Cold War Era

With the voice of over forty-five years of experience in the Intelligence Community, Bayard & Holmes explore key moments in the history of espionage.

•    The rise of spy ships.
•    How torpedo boats faced the might of the Soviet Union.
•    A blow-by-blow of the USS Liberty incident.
•    The North Korean capture of the USS Pueblo and her crew.
•    Hitler, Stalin, Mussolini, and the failed Operation Barbarossa.
•    The South's fatal miscalculation.
•    The greatest US intelligence failure of all time.
•    Andrei Tupolev and the explosion of the Konkordski.
•    The U-2 incident and the capture of Gary Powers.
•    The rise and fall of Sicily's Cosa Nostra.
•    How China spanked Vietnam.
•    Vladimir Putin, the living legacy of the Cold War.

Read the threads of history that still weave the patterns of today.