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Book: MIG Pilot – The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko (1981)
Description : 09 Apr, 2023
MIG Pilot – The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko By John Barron Genre: Biographies & Memoirs Publisher: Avon Books – a division of The Hearst Corporation, New York Paperback, 222 pages, 0.13 kg
Very good condition (Actually, it doesn’t look like it was read – no creasing to spine) There are a few listed under “Collectibles” on . They go from $40 to $68 (as of 10-Feb-2023). You can have this one for $30 obo.
About MIG Pilot is the thrilling true story of how Russia’s greatest air military secret was stolen and delivered right into America’s lap. But it’s more – it’s the fascinating life story of a peasant’s son who grew up to possess every luxury and honor Russia can bestow. And who threw it all away for one desperate chance to possess a dream – The American Dream.
Book overview () I was so blown away by this book I had to meet Viktor in person and now count him as a personal friend. The book is factual in every respect and is difficult to put down once started. John Barron is an excellent author and did a first class job of writing Viktor's story. In addition to an exciting escape story it reveals why the Soviet Union had to collapse of its own ineptitude, deceit, and corruption. It details humorous incidents such as army pilots' mess-hall riots due to bad food. Mig Pilot is also a biography of an exceptional man whose intelligence saw through a lifetime of brainwashing. The story is humorous in places and engrossing from beginning to end. It starts right out with Viktor's desperate and harrowing escape flight to freedom in his top-secret Mig-25 Foxbat, then in subsequent chapters details the life events that led to his courageous decision to "go for broke" and make his live-or-die dash to freedom. It illustrates how America probably could have given the Soviets all of its top secrets and they would have found a way to screw up making use of them. Viktor is not only a first class pilot, he is also a true hero. Don't lend this book to anyone and expect to get it back.
Lots of good customer reviews on . Here’s one: ***** One Hundred Stars! (my favorite book ever) By User, November 29, 2008 I read this book only once, many years ago, having checked it out of the library of a U.S. airbase in South Korea. I still think of portions of it often. I am a non-fiction reader by nature, so I esteem a true story to be of infinitely more value than any great tale of rings or of teenage witches. Surprisingly, this book has very little to do with flying. It is mostly about what it was like to live in the Soviet Union and to be taught constantly about the Evil Americans. The most remarkable part of the story is how Viktor Belenko came to his decision to defect, which I will not dare to spoil here. I have been in the U.S. Air Force for a long time, most of that time as a pilot. Whenever the frequent opportunity arises to whine about how I'm underappreciated, and how the government and the Air Force and the base housing office and the squadron seem to be run by mittee of morons, I think about Belenko's description of how the airbase where he was a fighter pilot removed snow from the runway. Then I count my blessings again. I was not particularly patriotic before I read MiG Pilot. But after reading it, and subsequently flying throughout the world and seeing people in several countries still plowing fields with an ox in the 21st Century, I have learned how wonderful it is to live in a place where people pay extra money to help themselves eat less food, while not for a moment even realizing how incongruous it is. Better still, I appreciate the opportunity to have e a military pilot without my family having any necessary political connections. Were I a billionaire, I would fund my own production of MiG Pilot, the movie, with Matt Damon as Viktor Belenko. You get the idea. Read the book.
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