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The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy
Mitchell B. Lerner
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Hardcover. "Remember, you are not going out there to start a war", Rear Admiral Johnson reminded the commander of the USS Pueblo just prior to her maiden voyage and yet a war, that might have gone nuclear, nearly happened. Attacked and captured by North Korea, diplomacy finally prevailed. Series: Modern War Studies. Num Pages: 408 pages, 21 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1FPKN; 1KBB; 3JJPK; JPSD; JWF; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 243 x 165 x 37. Weight in Grams: 700.
Remember, you are not going out there to start a war,"" Rear Admiral Frank Johnson reminded Commander Pete Bucher just prior to the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Pueblo. And yet a war - one that might have gone nuclear - was what nearly happened when the Pueblo was attacked and captured by North Korean gunships in January 1968. Diplomacy prevailed in the end, but not without great cost to the lives of the imprisoned crew and to a nation already mired in an unwinnable war in Vietnam. The Pueblo was an aging cargo ship poorly refurbished as a signals ... Read more
Remember, you are not going out there to start a war,"" Rear Admiral Frank Johnson reminded Commander Pete Bucher just prior to the maiden voyage of the U.S.S. Pueblo. And yet a war - one that might have gone nuclear - was what nearly happened when the Pueblo was attacked and captured by North Korean gunships in January 1968. Diplomacy prevailed in the end, but not without great cost to the lives of the imprisoned crew and to a nation already mired in an unwinnable war in Vietnam. The Pueblo was an aging cargo ship poorly refurbished as a signals ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University Press of Kansas
Condition
New
Series
Modern War Studies
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Kansas, United States
ISBN
9780700611713
SKU
V9780700611713
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About Mitchell B. Lerner
Mitchell B. Lerner is assistant professor of history at the Ohio State University in Newark, Ohio, and a Fellow at the University of Virginia's Miller Center for Public Affairs.
Reviews for The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy
The Pueblo Incident has found its biographer. Lerner tells the story well at the micro level, displays complete mastery of his sources, and fits his story compellingly into the context of the times. WILLIAM STUECK, JR., AUTHOR OF THE KOREAN WAR ""Expands our understanding of U.S. Cold War politics and its ideological trappings. I learned so much from this book."" ... Read more