Duck and cover
Edward Myers
In Denver, Colorado, in 1962, two eleven-year-old boys develop a rivalry that mimics the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union as it reaches a crisis in October.
Read Time: ~5.4 hr
Shadow flights
by Curtis Peebles (2000)
About this book
Recounts the early years of the Cold War when the U.S. sought to learn USSR military strength through border flights and overflights by the famed U-2 spyplanes.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CoreShadow flights Lead Character
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