Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 1501118781 ISBN13: 9781501118784 Release Date: August 2015 Publisher: Scribner Book Company Length: 464 Pages Weight: 0.90 lbs. Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.3" 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,