Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident из жанра Биографии и мемуары

Operation Overflight: A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

Биографии и мемуары, Военная история

Автор: Джентри Курт, Пауэрс Фрэнсис Гэри

Серия: Aviation Classics

Язык: английский

Год: 2004

Издатель: Potomac Books, Inc.

ISBN: 978-1-57488-422-7

Город: Washington, D.C.

Добавил: Admin 27 Май 15

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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.