Mayday: Eisenhower, Khrushchev, and the U-2 Affair.

BESCHLOSS, Michael R.

Item Number: 111839

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986.

First edition of this work by the award-winning historian. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated, cartographic endpapers. Signed by Michael Beschloss on the title page. Fine in a fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Michael Graef.

The “definitive” book on the U-2 episode and its disastrous impact on the future of the Cold War (Kirkus Reviews). On May Day 1960, Soviet forces downed a CIA spy plane flown deep into Soviet territory by Francis Gary Powers two weeks before a crucial summit.