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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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I have never thought of myself as a spy, yet in a certain sense this attitude is probably naive, for Operation Overflight was to change many of the traditional definitions of espionage, providing a bridge between the age of the "deep-cover" cloak-and-dagger agent and that of the wholly electronic spy-in-the-sky satellite.

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Título Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident (Revised)
Autor Francis Gary Powers; Curt Gentry; Curt Gentry (Joint Author)
Encuadernación Tapa blanda
Edición First Edition
Páginas 344
Volúmenes 1
Idioma ENG
Editorial University of Nebraska Press, Dulles, VA
Fecha de publicación 2003-12-01
Ilustrado Sí
Features Illustrated, Maps
ISBN 9781574884227 / 1574884220
Peso 1.15 libras (0.52 kg)
Dimensiones 8.9 x 6 x 1 pulgadas (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm)
Temas
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Cultural Region: Russian
Library of Congress subjects Cold War, Powers, Francis Gary
Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2002071149
Dewey Decimal Code B

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Francis Gary Powers served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and completed twenty-seven U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA, including several overflights of the Soviet Union, until shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile on May 1, 1960. Upon his return to the United States in 1962, he flew the U-2 as an engineering test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft. Powers died in a helicopter crash in 1977.

Curt Gentry has written or contributed to many books, including Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders and J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. He lives in San Francisco.

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