Diplomacy Shot Down: The U-2 Crisis and Eisenhower's Aborted Mission to Moscow, 1959-1960

by E. Bruce Geelhoed

Book Overview

The history of the Cold War is littered with what-ifs, and in Diplomacy Shot Down , E. Bruce Geelhoed explores one of the most intriguing: What if the Soviets had not shot down the American U-2 spy plane and President Dwight D. Eisenhower had visited the Soviet Union in 1960 as planned? In August 1959, with his second term nearing its end, Eisenhower made the surprise announcement that he and Soviet premier Nikita S. Khrushchev would visit each other's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806186429
• ISBN13: 9780806186429
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"