POWERS, Francis Gary.
Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story For The First Time.
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston , 1970.
$650.00
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"It was a pleasure working with you at Edwards. I hope we will have the opportunity to do so again": Francis Gary Powers' Operation Overflight; Inscribed by Him and Co-Author Curt Gentry
First edition, second printing of this classic spy memoir. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, "To Miles M. Doyle Colonel, It was a pleasure working with you at Edwards. I hope we will have the opportunity to do so again. Best wishes to you and Susie. Francis Gary Powers July 10, 1970." Near fine in a very good price-clipped dust jacket. Jacket design by Jay Smith. Written with Curt Gentry. Uncommon signed and inscribed.
In this 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.
Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story For The First Time.
$650.00
Out of Stock
