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Bridge of Spies (Paperback)
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Who were the three men the Soviet and American superpowers
exchanged on Berlin's Glienicke Bridge on February 10, 1962, in the
first and most legendary prisoner exhange between East and West?
Bridge of Spies vividly traces the journeys of these men, whose
fate defines the complex conflicts that characterized the most
dangerous years of the Cold War.
Bridge of Spies is a true story of three men -- a Soviet Spy who
was a master of disguise; Gary Powers, an American who was captured
when his spy plane was shot down by the Russians; and Frederic
Pryor, a young American doctor mistakenly identified as a spy and
captured by the Soviets. The men in this three-way political swap
had been drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and
curiosity, and the same tragicomedy of errors that induced
Khrushchev to send missiles to Castro. Two of them -- the spy and
the pilot -- were the original seekers of weapons of mass
destruction. The third was an intellectual, in over his head. They
were rescued against daunting odds by fate and by their families,
and then all but forgotten. Even the U2 spy-plane pilot Powers is
remembered now chiefly for the way he was vilified in the U.S. on
his return. Yet the fates of those men exemplified the pathological
mistrust that fueled the arms race for the next 30 years. This is
their story.
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