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Paperback:::: 304 pages+++Publisher:::: Broadway Books (November 9, 2010)+++Language:::: English+++ISBN-10:::: 0767931084+++ISBN- 13:::: 978-0767931083+++Product Dimensions::::5.2 x 0.7 x 8 inches++++++ ISBN10 0767931084 ISBN13 978-0767931

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Description: The dramatic events behind the Oscar-winning film, Bridge of Spies, tracing the paths leading to the first and most legendary prisoner exchange between East and West at Berlins and on February 10, 1962.Bridge of Spies is the true story of three extraordinary characters whose fate helped to define the conflicts and lethal undercurrents of the most dangerous years of the : William Fisher, alias , a British born KGB agent arrested by the FBI in New York City and jailed as a Soviet superspy for trying to steal America’s most precious nuclear secrets; Gary Powers, the American U-2 pilot who was captured when his plane was shot down while flying a reconnaissance mission over the closed cities of central Russia; and Frederic Pryor, a young American graduate student in Berlin mistakenly identified as a spy, arrested and held without charge by the , ’s secret police. The three men were rescued against daunting odds, and then all but forgotten. Yet they laid bare the pathological mistrust that fueled the arms race for the next 30 years.Weaving the three strands of this story together for the first time, Giles Whittell masterfully portrays the intense political tensions and nuclear brinkmanship that brought the United States and Soviet Union so close to a hot war in the early 1960s. He reveals the dramatic lives of men drawn into the nadir of the Cold War by duty and curiosity, and the tragicomedy of errors that eventually induced Nikita Khrushchev to send missiles to Fidel Castro.Drawing on new interviews conducted in the United States, and Russia with key players in the exchange and the events leading to it, among them Frederic Pryor himself and the man who shot down Gary Powers, Bridge of Spies captures a time when the fate of the world really did depend on coded messages on microdots and brave young men in pressure suits. The exchange that frigid day at two of the most sensitive points along the Iron Curtain represented the first step back from where the superpowers had stood since the building of the the previous summer--on the brink of World War III.

This is a very good book and well worth reading even if you saw and enjoyed the movie. It is different from the movie in many ways because I am pretty sure that the movie is based partially on this book, partially on Jim Donovans book, and partially on Hollywoods penchant for historical dramatic license. This book is very well researched, very easy to follow and read, and with a surprising amount of humor in it. It is a book that clearly had to wait for the end of the Cold War, reunification of Germany, and half a century to pass before most of the secrets surrounding the Rudolf Abel and the U-2 incidents could be told. I say most of the secrets because even a half century on Mr. Whittell could not convince some of the surviving players to open up about the subject at hand. One of the best aspects of the book is that the author vividly gives you the inside story of all of the sides, players, and communities involved in the story without being overly judgmental about any of the protagonists motivations and yet he does a great job of elucidating those motivations. You get the CIAs story, the East Germans story, the KGBs story, and the Soviet militarys story, the stories of all three national governments involved and the stories of their respective leaders, all told from their own point of view without prejudice or bias. The reader also gets a nice portrait of post-war American and Soviet societies. If, like me, you lived through the aforementioned post-war period, the entirety of the Cold War, and remember the U-2 Incident, , Rudolf Abel, and the spy swap it is a poignant and chilling book that will probably shake loose some of the most frightening memories of your childhood and adolescence. And it is those frightening and chilling aspects of the tale which makes Mr. Whittells talent for finding the humor in the stories all the more amazing. Whittell does a wonderful job of weaving so many diverse and seemingly unassociated story lines into a cogent, logical, and well connected whole that goes from a million miles wide to eventually narrowing down down to a pinpoint meeting on a bridge in Berlin. I was transported back to those scary days where they made us watch the Bert the Turtle film at school, hide under our desks at school to prepare for a nuclear attack, and warned us little kids to watch for the bright flash of an exploding bomb. I never thought there were commies hiding under my bed but we all knew they were out there ...trying to destroy our free country and our way of life. If you are younger than we Boomers then you ought to read the book as a way to gain some insight as to the way your parents and grandparents can be so crazy paranoid at times because Bridge of Spies will transport you back to the world in which we Boomers were little kids.

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