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Spy Pilot

Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy

By: Francis Gary Powers (Jr.),Francis Gary Powers,Keith Dunnavant,Sergei Krushchev

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Spy Pilot

Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy

By: Francis Gary Powers (Jr.),Francis Gary Powers,Keith Dunnavant,Sergei Krushchev

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 movie Bridge of Spies. Powers was captured by the KGB, subjected to a televised show trial, and imprisoned, all of which created an international incident. Soviet authorities eventually released him in exchange for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel. On his return to the United States, Powers was exonerated of any wrongdoing while imprisoned in Russia, yet a cloud of controversy lingered until his untimely death in 1977. Now his son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., has written this new account of his father's life based on personal files that have never been previously available. Delving into old audio tapes, the transcript of his father's debriefing by the CIA, other recently declassified documents about the U-2 program, and interviews with his contemporaries, Powers sets the record straight. The result is a fascinating piece of Cold War history. Almost sixty years after the event, this will be the definitive account of a famous Cold War incident, one proving that Francis Gary Powers acted honorably through a trying ordeal in service to his country.

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1633884686

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Operation Overflight

A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

By: Francis Gary Powers,Curt Gentry

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Operation Overflight

A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

By: Francis Gary Powers,Curt Gentry

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.

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Potomac Books, Inc.

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1597979961

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9781597979962

The Trial of the U2

Exclusive Authorized Account of the Court Proceedings of the Case of Francis Gary Powers

By: Francis Gary Powers

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The Trial of the U2

Exclusive Authorized Account of the Court Proceedings of the Case of Francis Gary Powers

By: Francis Gary Powers

First published in 1960, this is the only authorized account of the trial of Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 pilot shot down by the Soviet Union on May 1, 1960. The court proceedings were held before the Military Division of the Supreme Court of the U.S.S.R. in Moscow, Russia and commenced on August 17, 1960 and concluded on August 19, 1960. Includes introductory comments written by internationally renowned authority on Soviet law, Professor Harold J. Berman, and richly illustrated throughout with exclusive courtroom photos. An exclusive ringside seat at one of the most dramatic trials in modern times!

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Pickle Partners Publishing

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1787205029

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9781787205024

Letters From a Soviet Prison

The Personal Journal and Private Correspondence of CIA U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers

By: Jr Francis Gary Powers,Douglas E. Campbell

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Letters From a Soviet Prison

The Personal Journal and Private Correspondence of CIA U-2 Pilot Francis Gary Powers

By: Jr Francis Gary Powers,Douglas E. Campbell

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 of the Glienicker Bridge in Potsdam, Germany, as depicted in Steven Spielberg's motion picture Bridge of Spies, where the exchange took place. While in prison my father kept a personal journal and was allowed to write and receive personal correspondence. In this book are the never-before published journal of my father's thoughts as a Prisoner of War, along with more than 150 personal letters written and received by my father during his captivity.

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0359707424

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The Trial of the U2

Exclusive Authorized Account of the Court Proceedings of the Case of Francis Gary Powers

By: Francis Gary Powers

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The Trial of the U2

Exclusive Authorized Account of the Court Proceedings of the Case of Francis Gary Powers

By: Francis Gary Powers

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Operation Overflight

A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

By: Francis Gary Powers,Curt Gentry

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Operation Overflight

A Memoir of the U-2 Incident

By: Francis Gary Powers,Curt Gentry

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The Chess Players, a Novel of the Cold War at Sea

By: Francis J. Partel

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The Chess Players, a Novel of the Cold War at Sea

By: Francis J. Partel

The Chess Players is both a naval story and a love story and opens with an audacious, espionage mission, a Soviet submarine penetration of Stavanger, Norway, and closes with a thrilling, bizarre episode between a missile-equipped, Russian nuclear submarine and a US Navy destroyer escort in the Mediterranean Sea. Commander Pebbles, Operations Officer of anti-submarine carrier, Essex, on a career track for admiral, mentors the well-educated and competent, but inexperienced young Ensign Cannon. Based in part on untold, historical events typical of the Cold War at sea, their task group encounters several provocative incidents at the hands of the Russian Bear above the Arctic Circle and in the Mediterranean Sea prior to and after the 1967 Six Day Arab-Israeli War. The love story begins when beautiful Laetitia Martin, a Ph. D. candidate in art history, meets Ensign Cannon, both members of a wedding on Martha's Vineyard, shortly before Essex deploys for NATO exercises in the Eastern Atlantic. She is a consummate "belonger" with a growth motive and catches a whiff of the women's movement and begins to find her upper-class life stifling. Cannon doesn't flinch at women's liberation, but he has other anxiety-producing issues related to women. Her research into the turbulent life of the painter, Caravaggio, the novel's fourth character, if you will, will also take her to Europe in the summer of 1967 and provides the opportunity for their romance to bud and bloom in London and in Malta as she succeeds in explaining Caravaggio's self-destructive behavior in modern psychological terms.

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Navy Log LLC

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0615414516

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9780615414515

Crosswords on the Flip Side

By: Francis Heaney,David J. Kahn,Trip Payne,Nancy Cole Stuart

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Crosswords on the Flip Side

By: Francis Heaney,David J. Kahn,Trip Payne,Nancy Cole Stuart

Ready, setrip out a page, sharpen those pencils, and "GO! "These stimulating crosswordsmore than 150 of themwill provide loads of fun while giving the mind a great workout. Having a puzzle close by all the time is simpler than ever with this "Flip Side" collection. The crosswords range from user-friendly to tricky and subtle, so there s something right for every level. Wake up the brain in the morning with such easy clues as Edinburgh native (just four letters). Once you re all warmed up and ready to go, try answering the harder ones like Ferrara family name ("Este") and "Winter of Artifice" novelist (Nin). Every oneeven the cranium-crushersis perfectly sized for a short trip.

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Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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1402737106

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9781402737107

Space Law

A Treatise

By: Francis Lyall

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Space Law

A Treatise

By: Francis Lyall

The opening of space to exploration and use has had profound effects on society. Remote sensing by satellite has improved meteorology, land use and the monitoring of the environment. Satellite television immediately informs us visually of events in formerly remote locations, as well as providing many entertainment channels. World telecommunication facilities have been revolutionised. Global positioning has improved transport. This book examines the varied elements of public law that lie behind and regulate the use of space. It also makes suggestions for the development and improvement of the law, particularly as private enterprise plays an increasing role in space.

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Routledge

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1351898876

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Empires at War

A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II

By: Francis Pike

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Empires at War

A Short History of Modern Asia Since World War II

By: Francis Pike

Asia - with four billion people, almost two-thirds of the world's population, a huge landmass and the fastest-growing economies - has in the past decade transformed the geopolitical global balance. "Empires at War" gives a dramatic narrative account of how this 'Modern Asia' came into being. Taking the bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 as its starting point, Francis Pike chronicles the modern fortunes of fourteen Asian countries. The iconic figures of post-World War II Asia - Mao, Gandhi, Nehru, Ho Chi Minh, Kim Il Sung, General MacArthur and Lord Mountbatten - figure prominently but so also do a great many lesser-known but pivotal figures. Francis Pike weaves the dramatic events and episodes of the region - the great battles between American and Soviet-backed forces in Korea and Vietnam but also episodes such as Indian 'Partition', Japan's 'Lost Decade', Indonesia's 'Year of Living Dangerously' and Cambodia's 'Killing Fields' - into a coherent whole, which forms the essential guide to the history of modern Asia.

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825

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0857730290

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9780857730299

Into That Silent Sea

Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965

By: Francis French,Colin Burgess

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Into That Silent Sea

Trailblazers of the Space Era, 1961-1965

By: Francis French,Colin Burgess

A history of early space flight focuses on the careers of both American astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts and includes coverage of other persons who worked in support roles.

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U of Nebraska Press

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0803206976

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9780803206977

Wolf Winter

By: Clare Francis

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Wolf Winter

By: Clare Francis

Two Norwegians are murdered in the Soviet wilderness, setting off a web of intrigue in this “consistently superior” Cold War spy thriller (Chicago Tribune). In this “galloping good read” that blends “Stephen King horror and Ingmar Bergman darkness,” Jan Johansen heads to Finland on a seemingly routine intelligence operation—but when he and his companion wander over the Russian border, they are gunned down in cold blood (The Washington Post Book World). Halvard Starheim, an experienced explorer and Jan’s good friend, is determined to find out what went wrong. He is joined by Jan’s beautiful widow and a journalist, who is hiding his own dangerous secret. Their journey will slowly undercover an international conspiracy—and lead to a terrifying showdown in the freezing Arctic winter. Interweaving the stories of these three characters and revealing the complex political tensions in the region where northern Europe meets the USSR, the international bestselling author of Unforgotten and Homeland offers a suspenseful tale of adventure and espionage: “The classically structured spy thriller has rarely been better done” (The New York Times).

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Open Road Media

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1504015886

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9781504015882

The Collected Crime Novels Volume One

Wolf Winter and Night Sky

By: Clare Francis

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The Collected Crime Novels Volume One

Wolf Winter and Night Sky

By: Clare Francis

A “tour-de-force” espionage thriller and the New York Times–bestselling debut novel from an international bestselling master of suspense (Chicago Tribune). Bestselling British novelist Clare Francis has proven again and again that she “has serious crime writing talent” (The Mail on Sunday). Collected here: a Cold War spy thriller and her debut—a military thriller set in World War II, both a New York Times and international bestseller. Wolf Winter: In this “classically structured spy thriller,” two Norwegians are murdered in the Soviet wilderness (The New York Times). On a seemingly routine intelligence operation, Jan Johansen and his companion head to Finland, but when they wander over the Russian border, they are gunned down in cold blood. Halvard Starheim, an experienced explorer and Jan’s friend, is determined to find out what went wrong. Halvard is joined by Jan’s beautiful widow and a journalist who is hiding his own dangerous secret. Their journey will slowly uncover an international conspiracy—and lead to a terrifying showdown in the freezing Arctic winter. “Stephen King horror and Ingmar Bergman darkness . . . A galloping good read.” —The Washington Post Book World Night Sky: Three lives, caught in the turbulence of World War II, converge one fateful night on the same beach. Julie Lescaux, a young English mother, has moved to France and become perilously involved in the French Resistance. David Freyman, a German-Jewish scientist, has made a discovery that could free war-torn Europe. But Nazi spies threaten at every turn, including Paul Vasson, a former-pimp-turned-collaborator, in this “thoroughly professional wartime adventure” (The Sunday Times). “A terrific thriller.” —Time Out London

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Open Road Media

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1504054628

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9781504054621

The Downing of Flight Six Heavy

By: Perry Lafferty,Perry Francis Lafferty

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The Downing of Flight Six Heavy

By: Perry Lafferty,Perry Francis Lafferty

The CIA asks pilot Len Hutcherson to hijack his own plane on a trans-Atlantic flight. Their plan is to use his plane to transport a highly classified weapon to Scotland. But treachery and terrorism get in the way and the fight is on to prevent the destruction of innocent millions.

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Pinnacle Books

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1558176225

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9781558176225

Police Powers II

By: Paul Francis McKenna

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Police Powers II

By: Paul Francis McKenna

Appropriate for the Police Powers II course within the Ontario Police Foundations training program in colleges. Police Powers II is a continuation of Police Powers I. Its focus is on police governance and accountability issues related to the Police Services Act, police complaints, First Nations policy and management and labour issues. Use of force theory, law and other legal issues related to the use of force are also covered.

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Prentice Hall

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013040697X

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9780130406972

Book's by Francis Gary Powers

Spy Pilot

Spy Pilot

Operation Overflight

Operation Overflight

The Trial of the U2

The Trial of the U2

Letters From a Soviet Prison

Letters From a Soviet Prison

The Trial of the U2

The Trial of the U2

Operation Overflight

Operation Overflight

The Chess Players, a Novel of the Cold War at Sea

The Chess Players, a Novel of the Cold War at Sea

Crosswords on the Flip Side

Crosswords on the Flip Side

Space Law

Space Law

Empires at War

Empires at War

Into That Silent Sea

Into That Silent Sea

Wolf Winter

Wolf Winter

The Collected Crime Novels Volume One

The Collected Crime Novels Volume One

The Downing of Flight Six Heavy

The Downing of Flight Six Heavy

Police Powers II

Police Powers II

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