Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds - Couverture souple

Olds, Robin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0312569513 ISBN 13 : 9780312569518

Editeur : Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S., 2011

Synopsis

By Robin Olds ; Christina Olds ; Ed Rasimus ( Author ) [ Fighter Pilot: The Memoirs of Legendary Ace Robin Olds By May-2011 Paperback

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Robin Olds was a larger-than-life hero with a towering personality. A graduate of West Point and an inductee in the National College Football Hall of Fame for his All-American performance for Army, Olds was one of the toughest college football players at the time. In WWII, Olds quickly became a top fighter pilot and squadron commander by the age of 22 - and an ace with 12 aerial victories. But it was in Vietnam where the man became a legend. He arrived in 1966 to find a dejected group of pilots and motivated them by placing himself on the flight schedule under officers junior to himself, then challenging them to train him properly because he would soon be leading them. Proving he wasn't a WWII retread, he led the wing with aggressiveness, scoring another four confirmed kills, becoming a rare triple ace. Olds (who retired a brigadier general and died in 2007) was a unique individual whose personal story is one of the most eagerly anticipated military books of the year.

Revue de presse :

"Robin Olds is probably the greatest aerial warrior America ever produced. I confidently predict that this book will be an instant classic." - Stephen Coonts, New York Times bestselling author of The Assassin" --Stephen Coonts

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312569513
• ISBN 13: 9780312569518
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 432