About this history book
Operation Overflight: the U-2 spy pilot tells his story for the first time by [by] Francis Gary Powers, with Curt Gentry is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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. *Alternate Title -- Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
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- Author
- [by] Francis Gary Powers, with Curt Gentry
- Publisher
- New York, Holt, Rinehart and Winston
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781574884227
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, War & Espionage