Full name: MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko

Author: John Barron Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780380538683 0380538687

To be a MIG pilot in Russia is to be as close to heaven as communism allows. Millions are spent on your training. And nothing is too lavish for your living. Lt Viktor Belenko was a MIG-25 pilot - one of Russia's elite warriors and the supreme expression of the ideal communist man. Or so everyone believed.Thwn on September 6, 1976, while on a routine training flight, Lt. Belenko veered off course - and embarked on an incredible escape, an unforgiveable betrayal of his nation, and a daring and torturous personal journey of hope and courage.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. Similar books: Inside the Soviet Army by Viktor Suvorov Bonhoeffer by Eric Metaxas Wager with the Wind by James Greiner Like the Roman by Simon Heffer Memoirs by Pablo Neruda The Man Watching by Tim Crothers When God Intervenes by Dabney Hedegard Child of the Revolution by Wolfgang Leonhard Unbreak My Heart by Toni Braxton R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman How Lucky You Can Be by Buster Olney The Way It Was by Eliot Weisman Amazing Faith by Michael Richardson Out of the Comfort Zone by Ray Comfort Francis by Murray Bodo The Magic Lantern by Ingmar Bergman John Wayne by Scott Eyman Albert Camus by Catherine Camus Max Perkins by A. Scott Berg