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The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs incident and the timely reissue of Wings of Denial (NewSouth Books, 2001). After nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 were made public and their names memorialized at the CIAs Wall of Honor in Langley, Virginia. Their stories are now told in Wings of Denial.

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The year 2011 marks the 50th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs incident and the timely reissue of Wings of Denial (NewSouth Books, 2001). After nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961 were made public and their names memorialized at the CIAs Wall of Honor in Langley, Virginia. Their stories are now told in Wings of Denial.
Autorenporträt
Warren Trest is a former United States Air Force senior historian. A combat reporter, writer, and air power historian in the Korean, Vietnam, and Cold Wars, he has published numerous articles and authored and co-authored more than 50 histories and studies. His book Air Commando One was nominated for the Bancroft Prize for distinguished works in American history. Other recent works include Wings of Denial, Nobody But the People, and Once a Fighter Pilot, and the hard-boiled Jake Falcon mystery novels Missing in Paradise and Requiem for a Flower Child.