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Spy Pilot - Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (Hardcover)
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Spy Pilot - Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (Hardcover)
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One of the most talked-about events of the Cold War was the downing
of the American U-2 spy plane piloted by Francis Gary Powers over
the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The event was recently depicted in
the Steven Spielberg movie Bridge of Spies. Powers was captured by
the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and imprisoned, all
of which created an international incident. Soviet authorities
eventually released him in exchange for captured Soviet spy Rudolf
Abel. On his return to the United States, Powers was exonerated of
any wrongdoing while imprisoned in Russia, yet, due to bad press
and the government's unwillingness to heartily defend Powers, a
cloud of controversy lingered until his untimely death in 1977. Now
his son, Francis Gary Powers Jr. and acclaimed historian Keith
Dunnavant have written this new account of Powers's life based on
personal files that had never been previously available. Delving
into old audio tapes, letters his father wrote and received while
imprisoned in the Soviet Union, the transcript of his father's
debriefing by the CIA, other recently declassified documents about
the U-2 program, and interviews with the spy pilot's
contemporaries, Powers and Dunnavant set the record straight. The
result is a fascinating piece of Cold War history. This is also a
book about a son's journey to understand his father, pursuing
justice and a measure of peace. Almost sixty years after the fact,
this will be the definitive account of one of the most important
events of the Cold War.
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