Full name: Operation Overflight: the U-2 spy pilot tells his story for the first time

Authors: Francis Gary Powers, Curt Gentry Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780030830457 0030830451

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. Similar books: Mayday by Michael Beschloss The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi The Greatest Game Ever Played by Mark Frost There Are No Children Here by Alex Kotlowitz The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy Walt Disney by B. G. Thomas Working by Studs Terkel Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Yeager by Chuck Yeager You Can't Win by Jack Black Joseph Fouche by Stefan Zweig