Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev And The U-2 Affair by Michael R. Beschloss

Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev And The U-2 Affair

Michael R. Beschloss

512 pages first pub 1986 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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Francis Gary Powers, discharged from the USAF in '56 as a captain, joined CIA's U-2 program. U-2s flew at over 70,000', invulnerable to Soviet anti-aircraft weapons, taking high-resolution photos from the stratosphere of military & other sites...

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