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Jack Cheevers
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The brilliant and fearless journalists of the Boston Globe in the 1960
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Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
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2013
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14 editions
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Kennedy's Coup: A White House Plot, a Saigon Murder, and America's Descent into Vietnam
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expected publication
2026
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3 editions
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Welcome home, sailor
As a captive of North Korea in 1968, USS Pueblo crewman Don McClarren often had dreams of gorging on a porterhouse steak smothered in chocolate ice cream.Like the other 81 sailors who’d survived an attack on the U.S. spy ship by North Korean gunboats on Jan. 23, 1968, McClarren was taken ashore and tossed into a communist prison. There he and the others survived for the next 11 months on a starva Read more of this blog post »
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The Pueblo was captured a little over a year before I joined the Army as a Army version of a Navy CT. I served in Korea several times and the capture and other events remained standard practice for North Kore" Read more of this review » |
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"Unnerving account of the capture and imprisonment of the crew of the USS Pueblo by North Korea."
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"On January 23, 1968 the USS Pueblo, a lightly armed diminutive spy ship was boarded by heavily armed North Korean military near Wonsan and the American crewmen taken prisoner. Jack Cheevers, a former Los Angeles Times political reporter, painstakingl"
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“It requires more courage to suffer than to die. —Napoleon Bonaparte”
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
“12 ball problem,” which involves a dozen balls of the same size and color. One is heavier or lighter than the others. The challenge is to put the balls on a scale and figure out, in only three weighings, which of them is different, and whether it’s heavier or lighter. It took Bucher 12 hours to crack the problem; a brainy CT named Charles Ayling solved it in 60 minutes.”
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
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“12 ball problem,” which involves a dozen balls of the same size and color. One is heavier or lighter than the others. The challenge is to put the balls on a scale and figure out, in only three weighings, which of them is different, and whether it’s heavier or lighter. It took Bucher 12 hours to crack the problem; a brainy CT named Charles Ayling solved it in 60 minutes.”
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die. —Napoleon Bonaparte”
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
― Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo
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