During World War II Navy airships escorted over 89,000 merchant ships. Not one of these vessels was sunk or damaged by a German U-boat. Airships flew under all weather conditions. They were dependable and effective in anti-submarine wartime operations. After the war Navy airships flew air-sea rescue, hunter-killer operations from aircraft carriers, and early warning missions with great success until June 1962 when the Navy's lighter-than-air activities were terminated. Wasn't I the Lucky One with 45 photographs presents a first hand, on-the-scene, account of this period by the author, a former Navy combat airship commander.

Wasn't I the Lucky One

Fahey, John A.

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During the Cold War American tourism to the Soviet Union languished both because of a poor relationship between the United States and Russian governments and the fear of even a temporarily short stay under a Communist government. Yet, visitors, especially Americans. during this period were welcomed. It was a fun time when foreign visitors could feel safer than alone in their home city streets at night. Kremlin Kapers relates some fascinating situations encountered behind the Iron Curtain in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Kremlin Kapers

B & J Books

Serving on the Virginia Beach City Public School Board, John Fahey confronted a veteran school board and a division with some serious educational challenges: among others, school buses did not meet federal safety standards, social studies textbooks contained numerous mistakes, older elementary school buildings lacked adequate physical education facilities, curriculum was weak in foreign language, science, and math, and student recognition needed improvement. With persistence of a "maverick" Fahey bucked the opposition and battled to change the status quo throughout his nine-year tenure on the school board.

Maverick on the School Board

John Fahey's firsthand account of his activities as a U.S. naval officer in East Germany during the Cold War is a must read for everyone who enjoys true-life spy stories. An astonishing tale of overt reconnaissance, high-speed car chases, shootings, and detentions, the book chronicles Fahey's two years in the midst of twenty-two divisions of Soviet troops behind the Iron Curtain. As a member of a military liaison mission established in a little-known 1947 agreement between U.S. and Soviet forces, the author was legally permitted to perform surveillance in East Germany and took advantage of the opportunity to conduct dangerous intelligence missions. 
Fahey takes the reader into the Soviet military psyche during the height of Cold War relations with the United States. A Russian linguist as well as a spy, he served as an interpreter and delegate in high-level meetings between heads of the Soviet and American armies. This account provides an intimate view of the Russian military officer and details of a life of intrigue behind the borders of a Communist country. Published here for the first time, thirty-seven photographs illustrate this tale of insight and intrigue that is sure to appeal to the general public as well as to military personnel and Cold War historians.

Licensed to Spy: With the Top Secret Military Liaison Mission in East Germany

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Naval Inst Pr

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Wasn't I the Lucky One

Kremlin Kapers

Maverick on the School Board

Licensed to Spy: With the Top Secret Military Liaison Mission in East Germany