This lot includes:

(1)May-Day Eisenhower Khrushchev And The U2 Affair By Michael Beschloss. The book is approx 6 1/2" x 2" x 9 1/2" and is in a good, vintage condition with some shelf-wear on the dust-jacket. Also has a hand-written gift message on the 1st page. 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.
(1) D-Day: Great Battles Of WWII by Brigadier Peter Young. Published by Chartwell Books Inc in 1990. The book is approx 9 1/2" x 1/2" x 12" and is in a good, used condition with wear on the dust-jacket.