The Pueblo Incident: A Spy Ship and the Failure of American Foreign Policy

by Mitchell B. Lerner

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Winner: John Lyman Book Award

"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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700611711
• ISBN13: 9780700611713
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"