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 |Francis Gary Powers||''Operation Overflight: The U-2 Spy Pilot Tells His Story for the First Time''{{efn|Coauthored.}}||1970
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-|Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev||''The Aim of a Lifetime: The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane''{{efn|A book titled ''Notes of an Aircraft Designer'' by Yakovlev was first published in English in 1960 and later republished the same year as ''The Aim of a Lifetime''. This may be same book with a different name, possibly due to mistranslation or a confusion of the title and subtitle.<ref>{{cite web |title=Цель жизни. (Записки авиаконструктора) / T︠S︡elʹ zhizni. (Zapiski aviakonstruktora) |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/15641343 |website=WorldCat |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>}}||1972
+|Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev||''The Aim of a Lifetime: The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane''{{efn|Yakovlev wrote three books during his lifetime: ''The Designer's Tales'' in 1950, a second book in 1964, and ''The Purpose of Life'' in 1967. The books vary in content, most distinctly being rewritten in regards to the changing political situation in the Soviet Union.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Mamyachenkov |first1=Vladimir Nikolajevich |title=Designer A. S. Yakovlev’s Books as Source on the Soviet History |journal=Manuscript |date=2021 |volume=14 |issue=8 |pages=1564–1565 |url=http://www.gramota.net/eng/materials/9/2021/8/8.html |access-date=16 January 2023 |language=Russian}}</ref> The first English language book, ''Notes of an Aircraft Designer'' was published in 1960.<ref>{{cite web |title=Notes of an Aircraft Designer |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/2222818 |website=WorldCat |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref> A second English language book, corresponding with the third Russian language book and titled ''The Aim of a Lifetime'', was published in 1972.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Aim of a Lifetime: The Story of Alexander Yakovlev, Designer of the YAK Fighter Plane |url=http://www.worldcat.org/title/521377 |website=WorldCat |access-date=16 January 2023}}</ref>}}||1972
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 |Raymond Collishaw||''Air Command: A Fighter Pilot's Story''||1973