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Published 2019 by Prometheus Books
Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy. Copyright © 2019 by Francis Gary Powers Jr. and Keith Dunnavant. Foreword © 2019 by Sergei Khrushchev. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, digital, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or conveyed via the internet or a website without prior written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.
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Cover image of Powers in front of F-84 circa 1952 © 2018 Associated Press;
Soviet photo of US spy plane
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Powers, Francis Gary, Jr., 1965- author. | Dunnavant, Keith, author.
Title: Spy pilot : Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 incident, and a controversial Cold War legacy / Francis Gary Powers Jr. and Keith Dunnavant.
Other titles: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 incident, and a controversial Cold War legacy
Description: Amherst, New York : Prometheus Books, 2019. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018040315 (print) | LCCN 2018045041 (ebook) | ISBN 9781633884694 (eBook) | ISBN 9781633884687 (hardback)
Subjects: LCSH: Powers, Francis Gary, 1929-1977. | U-2 Incident, 1960. | Prisoners of war—Soviet Union—Biography. | Air pilots, Military—United States—Biography. | Powers, Francis Gary, Jr., 1965- | Powers family. | United States. Central Intelligence Agency. | Cold War. | BISAC: HISTORY / Military / Other. | POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom & Security / Intelligence. | BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military.
Classification: LCC DK266.3 (ebook) | LCC DK266.3 .P66 2019 (print) | DDC 327.1273047092 [B]—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018040315
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