Yeager: An Autobiography (G K Hall Large Print Book Series) - Hardcover

Yeager, Chuck; Janos, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0816140235 ISBN 13: 9780816140237

Publisher: G K Hall & Co, 1986

Synopsis

The pioneering aviator who first broke the sound barrier in 1947 recounts his career as a fighter pilot and test pilot, in a memoir enriched by the reminiscences of his wife and colleagues

About this title

About the Author:

Chuck Yeager is a true American hero. The greatest test pilot of them all, he was a World War II flying ace and the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound.

From the Inside Flap:

k Yeager, the greatest test pilot of them all -- the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound . . .the World War II flying ace who shot down a Messerschmitt jet with a prop-driven P-51 Mustang . . .the hero who defined a certain quality that all hotshot fly-boys of the postwar era aimed to achieve: the right stuff.
Now Chuck Yeager tells his whole incredible life story with the same "wide-open, full throttle" approach that has marked his astonishing career.  What it was really like enaging in do-or-die dogfights over Nazi Europe.  How after being shot over occupied France, Yeager somehow managed to escape.  The amazing behind-the-scenes story of smashing the sound barrier despite cracked ribs from a riding accident days before.
The entire story is here, in Yeager's own words, and in wondeful insights from his wife and those friends and colleagues who have known him best.  It is the personal a

About this edition

• Publisher: G K Hall & Co
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0816140235
• ISBN 13: 9780816140237
• Binding: Hardcover