Informationen zum Autor Francis Gary Powers served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and completed 27 U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA! including several overflights of the Soviet Union! until shot down in 1960. Upon his return to the United States in 1962! he flew the U-2 as an engineering test pilot for Lockheed Aircraft. Powers died in a helicopter crash in 1977. Klappentext The incident that wrecked a summit conference and inaugurated a new era in the ancient art of spying Zusammenfassung 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.

Klappentext

The incident that wrecked a summit conference and inaugurated a new era in the ancient art of spying

Zusammenfassung
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.