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Strangers on a Bridge : The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers by James B. Donovan is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan. Originally published in 1964, this is the "enthralling...truly remarkable" ( The New York Times Book Review ) insider account of the Cold War spy exchange—with a new foreword by Jason Matthews, New York Times bestselling author of Red Sparrow and Palace of Treason . In the early morning of February 10, 1962, James B. Donovan began his walk toward the center of the Glienicke Bridge, the famous "Bridge of Spies" which then linked West Berlin to East. With him, walked Rudolf Ivanovich Abel, master spy and for years the chief of Soviet espionage in the United States. Approaching them from the other side, under equally heavy guard, was Francis Gary Powers, the American U-2 spy plane pilot famously shot down by the Soviets, whose exchange for Abel Donovan had negotiated. These were the strangers on a bridge, men of East and West, representatives of two opposed worlds meeting in a moment of high drama. Abel was the most gifted, the most mysterious, the most effective spy in his time. His trial, which began in a Br

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Author
James B. Donovan
Publisher
New York, NY: Scribner
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9783641188054
Category
history
Subjects
True Crime, Memoir, Political Science
Rating
4.03 / 5 (466 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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