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This 1964 memoir by James B. Donovan became the basis for the acclaimed film Bridge of Spies. Donovan gives first hand account and an analysis of the intriguing case of Colonel Abel who was a "master spy and for years chief of Soviet espionage in the United States." Donovan negotiated the February 10, 1962 exchange of Abel for U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers who was being held by the Soviet Union after his spy plane was shot down over Sverdlovsk. Includes ephemera of newspaper clipping from the Catholic Telegraph dated December 11, 1964 and a signed letter from the president of Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio. An important piece of Cold War. legal and espionage history.
Stated second printing, May 1964. Unclipped dust jacket. Brown canvas boards, embossed. Gold gilt spine. Red sprayed top pages. Creasing to dust jacket.
- Format: Hardback
- Author: Donovan, James B.
- Condition: Good
- Publisher: Atheneum
- Publication Year: 1964