DON DODD is Professor Emeritus of History at Auburn University at Montgomery and the assistant director of the Southern Museum of Flight in Birmingham, Alabama. WARREN TREST is a former United States Air Force senior historian. A combat reporter, writer, and air power historian in the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold Wars, he has published numerous articles and authored and coauthored more than 50 histories and studies. His book Air Commando One was nominated for the Bancroft Prize for distinguished works in American history. Other recent works include Wings of Denial, Nobody But the People, and Once a Fighter Pilot, and the hard-boiled Jake Falcon mystery novels Missing in Paradise and Requiem for a Flower Child.
A superb account of one of the darkest tragedies of the Cold War
era. Describes in chilling detail the bloody impact of JFK's
personal intervention.--Colonel Michael E. Haas
A well-deserved and heartfelt testimony to the patriotism and
bravery of the Alabama Air National Guardsmen who paid the ultimate
price for their country.--Timothy N. Castle, PhD, associate
professor, Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base
A well-written and informative account of the covert role played by
Alabama Air National Guardsmen--employed by the CIA as civilian
contract personnel--in the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. It sheds
new light on the Air Guard's hard-to-document involvement in the
murky world of clandestine operations.--Charles Gross, chief, Air
National Guard History/National Guard Bureau
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