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Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

Powers, Francis Gary
Gentry, Curt

Paperback

Military BiographiesAir CombatRussian History

Publisher Price: $27.95

ISBN10: 1574884220
ISBN13: 9781574884227
Publisher: Potomac Books
Published: Dec 1 2003
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.15
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies

In this new edition of his classic 1970 memoir about the notorious U-2 incident, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of what actually happened in the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history. After surviving the shoot-down of his reconnaissance plane and his capture on May 1, 1960, Powers endured sixty-one days of rigorous interrogation by the KGB, a public trial, a conviction for espionage, and the start of a ten-year sentence. After nearly two years, the U.S. government obtained his release from prison in a dramatic exchange for convicted Soviet spy Rudolph Abel. The narrative is a tremendously exciting suspense story about a man who was labeled a traitor by many of his countrymen but who emerged a Cold War hero.

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