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Mayday: The U-2 Affair : The Untold Story of the Greatest US-USSR Spy Scandal
Mayday The U2 Affair The Untold Story of the Greatest USUSSR Spy Scandal
Author: Michael R. Beschloss
Uncovers the story of Francis Gary Powers's flight in a CIA U-2 spy plane into Soviet airspace two weeks before a vital Paris summit meeting in 1960 between Eisenhower and Khrushchev.
ISBN-13: 9780060914073
ISBN-10: 0060914076
Publication Date: 5/1987
Pages: 494
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Publisher: Harpercollins
Book Type: Paperback
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Most people have heard of this U-2 incident...but, in my opinion, this book shows how this incident most assuredly set the stage for the Kennedy missile crisis, and more importantly, the following 30 years of nuclear arms race. Excellent writer.


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