Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time

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.

• Author
• Francis Gary Powers, Curt Gentry

• Format
• unknown binding

• Pages
• 375

• Publisher
• Holt McDougal

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780030830457

• Genres
• history, aviation, biography, autobiography, russia, espionage

• Release date
• 1970