"The #1 "New York Times "bestseller and subject of the major motion picture "Bridge of Spies" directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan now nominated for five Academy Awards including Best Picture. Originally published in 1964, this is the enthralling truly remarkable ("The New York Times Book Review") insider account of the Cold War spy exchange with a new foreword by Jason Matthews, "New York Times" bestselli ..."
"As a result, simply by being there so long, I had accumulated more spy flights—
overflights, eavesdropping missions, and “special” missions—than any other pilot
. One other pilot and I tied on the total number of overflights. However, I could ..."
"The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies 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 p ..."
J. Edgar Hoover(Reprint) The Man and the Secrets by Curt Gentry, FrancisGaryPowers Paperback, 848 Pages, Published 2001 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32128-9, ISBN: 0-393-32128-2
""The cumulative effect is overwhelming. Eleanor Roosevelt was right: Hoover’s FBI was an American gestapo."—Newsweek Shocking, grim, frightening, Curt Gentry’s masterful portrait of America’s top policeman is a unique political biography. From more than 300 interviews and over 100,000 pages of previously classified documents, Gentry reveals exactly how a paranoid director created the fraudulent myth of an invincible, incorruptible FBI. ..."
Operation Overflight(1st Edition) by FrancisGaryPowers, Curt Gentry Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 1970 by Holt Rinehart And Winston, 1970 Import ISBN-13: 978-0-340-14823-5, ISBN: 0-340-14823-3
"The true story that inspired the feature film Bridge of Spies 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 p ..."
Operation Overflight(1st Edition) The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for The First Time by FrancisGaryPowers, Curt Gentry Hardcover, 375 Pages, Published 1970 by Holt, Rinehart And Winston ISBN-13: 978-0-03-083045-7, ISBN: 0-03-083045-1
"For the first time since his release from a Russian prison in 1962, pilot Francis Gary Powers reveals the full story of the most sensational espionage case in Cold War history: the U-2 incident."
Spy Pilot FrancisGaryPowers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy by Keith Dunnavant, Sergei Khrushchev, FrancisGaryPowers Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2019 by Prometheus Books ISBN-13: 978-1-63388-468-7, ISBN: 1-63388-468-6
"Based on newly available information, the son of famed U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers presents the facts and dispels misinformation about the Cold War espionage program that turned his father into a Cold War icon..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 movi ..."
The Trial of the U2 Exclusive Authorized Account of the Court Proceedings of the Case of FrancisGaryPowers by FrancisGaryPowers 175 Pages, Published 2017 by Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-78720-502-4, ISBN: 1-78720-502-9
"The reckless actions of the United States Government have brought about the
breakdown of the Summit Meeting in Paris ... It has been established by the
investigation that the intrusion of the American “Lockheed U-2” aircraft on May 1st
could ..."
"My father, Francis Gary Powers, was a CIA U-2 pilot who was shot down in the midst of the Cold War, on May 1, 1960, while flying in Soviet airspace. After his capture, he was tried for espionage and then served nearly two years in a Soviet prison until his eventual release in exchange for Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United States in the late 1950s. The two operatives were brought to separate sides ..."