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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. This forced President Dwight Eisenhower to decide whether, in an effort to save the meeting, to admit to Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev—and the world—that he had secretly ordered Powers's flight, or to claim that the CIA could take such a significant step without his approval.

In rich and fascinating detail, Mayday explores the years of U-2 flights, which Eisenhower deemed "an act of war," the US government's misconceived attempt to cover up the true purpose of the flight, Khrushchev's dramatic revelation that Powers was alive and in Soviet custody, and the show trial that sentenced the pilot to prison and hard labor. From a U-2's cramped cockpit to tense meetings in...

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