Francis Gary Powers, Curt Gentry

Broschiertes Buch

Operation Overflight

A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

Beschreibung

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

Autor

Francis Gary Powers served as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force and completed twenty-seven U-2 photographic reconnaissance missions for the CIA, including several overflights of the Soviet Union, until shot down by a Soviet surface-to-air missile on May 1, 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. Curt Gentry has written or contributed to many books, including Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders and J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. He lives in San Francisco.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Potomac Books
• Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781574884227
• ISBN-10: 1574884220
• Artikelnr.: 21777895