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Title: Operation Overflight
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 1574884220
EAN: 9781574884227
ISBN: 9781574884227
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc
Genre: Law & Politics
Topic: History, Biography
Release Date: 31/12/2003
Description: 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.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Height: 230mm
Item Length: 150mm
Author: No Author
Release Year: 2003

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