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Yeager: An Autobiography Hardcover - 1985
by Yeager, Chuck; Janos, Leo
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- Hardcover
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Details
- Title Yeager: An Autobiography
- Author Yeager, Chuck; Janos, Leo
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 342
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bantam Books, New York
- Date 1985
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # 230628-D03
- ISBN 9780553050936 / 0553050931
- Weight 1.45 lbs (0.66 kg)
- Library of Congress subjects Air pilots - United States - Biography, Yeager, Chuck
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 85003959
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Summary
General Chuck 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 and public story of a man who settled for nothing less than excellence, a one-of-a-kind portrait of a true American hero.