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| Author | : United States. National Archives and Records Administration |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 180 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Cold War |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Douglas Boyd |
| Publisher | : The History Press |
| Total Pages | : 299 |
| Release | : 2017-04-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 075098290X |
Of the 2.3 million National Servicemen conscripted during the Cold War, 4,200 attended the secret Joint Services School for Linguists, tasked with supplying much-needed Russian speakers to the three services. The majority were in RAF uniform, as the Warsaw Pact saw air forces become the greatest danger to the West. After training, they were sent to the front lines in Germany and elsewhere to snoop on Russian aircraft in real time. Posted to RAF Gatow in Berlin, ideally placed for signals interception, Douglas Boyd came to know Hitler's devastated former capital, divided as it was into Soviet, French, US and British sectors. Pulling no punches, he describes the SIGINT work, his subsequent arrest by armed Soviet soldiers one night on the border, and how he was locked up without trial in solitary confinement in a Stasi prison. The Solitary Spy is a unique account of the terrifying experience of incarceration and interrogation in an East German political prison, from which Boyd eventually escaped one step ahead of the KGB.
| Author | : Susan Lisa Carruthers |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2009 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520257308 |
Susan Carruthers offers a provocative history of early Cold War America, in which she recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. She shows how central to American opinion at the time was a fascination with captivity & escape. Captivity became a way to understand everything.
| Author | : Michael E. Allen |
| Publisher | : DIANE Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 101 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Prisoners of war |
| ISBN | : 1428980024 |
| Author | : Susan L. Carruthers |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 351 |
| Release | : 2009-10-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0520944798 |
This provocative history of early cold war America recreates a time when World War III seemed imminent. Headlines were dominated by stories of Soviet slave laborers, brainwashed prisoners in Korea, and courageous escapees like Oksana Kasenkina who made a "leap for freedom" from the Soviet Consulate in New York. Full of fascinating and forgotten stories, Cold War Captives explores a central dimension of American culture and politics—the postwar preoccupation with captivity. "Menticide," the calculated destruction of individual autonomy, struck many Americans as a more immediate danger than nuclear annihilation. Drawing upon a rich array of declassified documents, movies, and reportage—from national security directives to films like The Manchurian Candidate—his book explores the ways in which east-west disputes over prisoners, repatriation, and defection shaped popular culture. Captivity became a way to understand everything from the anomie of suburban housewives to the "slave world" of drug addiction. Sixty years later, this era may seem distant. Yet, with interrogation techniques derived from America's communist enemies now being used in the "war on terror," the past remains powerfully present.
| Author | : Nigel Cawthorne |
| Publisher | : Garrett County Press |
| Total Pages | : 265 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0966646932 |
A staggering 30,000 British prisoners of war "liberated" from German POW camps by the Soviets at the end of World War II were never returned home. In investigating the fate of victims of the Cold War, Nigel Cawthorne travelled to Siberia to follow their trail.
| Author | : Paul M. Cole |
| Publisher | : RAND Corporation |
| Total Pages | : 196 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
This volume addresses three issues: whether American servicemen liberated by Soviet forces from Nazi German POW camps in the European theater of operations in World War II were not repatriated, whether American aircrews in the Far East and European theaters were detained in USSR territory, and early Cold War incidents are examined to determine whether archive materials indicated that American servicemen and civilians were held alive in USSR territory.
| Author | : James D. Sanders |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 352 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Korean War, 1950-1953 |
| ISBN | : 9780380721443 |
Reveals the true stories of America's forgotten soldiers, including the more than 24,000 American soldiers who were "liberated" from German POW camps after World War II--only to become prisoners of the Soviet Union. Reprint.
| Author | : Susan C. I. Grunewald |
| Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
| Total Pages | : 259 |
| Release | : 2024-07-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1501776045 |
From Incarceration to Repatriation explores the lives and memories of the nearly 1.5 million German POWs who were held by the Soviet Union during and after World War II and released in phases through 1956, seven years longer than the prisoners of any other Allied nation. Susan C. I. Grunewald argues that Soviet leadership deliberately kept able-bodied German POWs to supplement their labor force after the end of the war. The Soviet Union lost 27 million citizens and a quarter of its physical assets during the war, motivating Soviet leadership to harness the labor of German POWs for as long as possible. Engaging with recently declassified documents in former Soviet archives, archival material from multiple German governments, as well as innovative use of digital humanities methods and geographic information system (GIS) mapping, Grunewald demonstrates that Soviet authorities detained German POWs primarily for economic rather than punitive reasons. In fact, the GIS mapping of the historical materials makes it clear that most of the four thousand POW camps across the USSR were strategically located near industrial, infrastructure, and natural resource sites that were critical to postwar economic reconstruction. From Incarceration to Repatriation is the first book to draw together the distinct fields of Soviet and German history to provide a more nuanced and comprehensive understanding of German POW captivity in the USSR during and after World War II. Attending to the ways that the memory of German POWs remains in circulation in both the former Soviet Union and Germany, Grunewald tracks the political repercussions of war commemoration.
| Author | : Giles Whittell |
| Publisher | : Doubleday Canada |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 2010-11-09 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0385668082 |
Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962, in the first and most legendary prisoner exhange between East and West? Bridge of Spies vividly traces the journeys of these men, whose fate defines the complex conflicts that characterized the most dangerous years of the Cold War. Bridge of Spies is a true story of three men — a Soviet Spy who was a master of disguise; Gary Powers, an American who was captured when his spy plane was shot down by the Russians; and Frederic Pryor, a young American doctor mistakenly identified as a spy and captured by the Soviets. The men in this three-way political swap had been drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, and the same tragicomedy of errors that induced Khrushchev to send missiles to Castro. Two of them — the spy and the pilot — were the original seekers of weapons of mass destruction. The third was an intellectual, in over his head. They were rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families, and then all but forgotten. Even the U2 spy-plane pilot Powers is remembered now chiefly for the way he was vilified in the U.S. on his return. Yet the fates of those men exemplified the pathological mistrust that fueled the arms race for the next 30 years. This is their story.
