Above and Beyond by Casey Sherman

Above and Beyond by Casey Sherman

From the authors of the bestselling The Finest Hours comes the riveting, deeply human story of President John F. Kennedy and two U-2 pilots, Rudy Anderson and Chuck Maultsby, who risked their lives to save America during the Cuban Missile Crisis

During the ominous two weeks of the Cold War's terrifying peak, two things saved humanity: the strategic wisdom of John F. Kennedy and the U-2 aerial spy program.

On October 27, 1962, Kennedy, strained from back pain, sleeplessness, and days of impossible tension, was briefed about a missing spy plane. Its pilot, Chuck Maultsby, was on a surveillance mission over the North Pole, but had become disoriented and steered his plane into Soviet airspace. If detected, its presence there could be considered an act of war.

As the president and his advisers wrestled with this information, more bad news came: another U-2 had gone missing, this one belonging to Rudy Anderson. His mission: to photograph missile sites over Cuba. For the president, any wrong move could turn the Cold War nuclear.

Above and Beyond is the intimate, gripping account of the lives of these three war heroes, brought together on a day that changed history.

Selected as a Top 10 Nonfiction Books to Read (2018) by the MA Book Awards

Tougias is a syndicated newspaper columnist and the author of more than a dozen novels, many of which have won awards. The Blizzard of '78, his book, was a Boston Globe bestseller. He's also the coauthor of King Philip's War and There's a Porcupine in My Outhouse (Independent Publishers Association's Best Nature Book of 2003). He resides in the town of Franklin, Massachusetts.

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ISBN 13	9781610398046
ISBN 10	1610398041
Title	Above and Beyond
Author	Casey Sherman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	PublicAffairs
Year published	2018-06-07
Number of pages	360
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