By Any Means Necessary: America's Secret Air War in the Cold War - Historical Military Book for Aviation Enthusiasts & Cold War Researchers - Perfect for History Buffs, Academic Studies & Military Strategy Analysis

I prefer to read credible history when I can find it as opposed to historical fiction. Anyone born after 1960 needs to read this book. I grew up with "duck & cover." In 1960, we lived in base housing at Forbes AFB when the Soviets shot down a RB47H, killing the husbands & dads of families a few streets over. This was also a period when the base blew the air raid sirens day & night during exercises. I wondered if dad would survive at a dispersal base. But I was pretty sure that mom & us we would be spared dying of radiation sickness because we would be instantly incinerated when the Soviets nuced the bomb & missile wings on the base. It got no better for decades thereafter. Several of my F4 brethren were killed in training accidents pushing the envelope because that is what it would have taken to prevail had war broken out. Later, I wondered if my family would have been nuced before the dispersal base I was at got it. Now I see some of our own elected officials praising & aiding dictators ruling the same countries & rattling nucs that would have killed us. Real history like this book gives us the knowledge we need to help preclude such madness.