Fulcrum A Top Gun Pilots Escape from the Soviet Empire

He was a Soviet Top Gun—yet left all of the power and glory behind when he engineered the most audacious act of defection in Cold War history. On May 20, 1989, Soviet Air Force Captain Alexander Zuyev escaped from an air base in Soviet Georgia. Under the threat of Russian air defense missiles, and with other fighters in hot pursuit, Zuyev carried out a real-life flight to freedom even more breathtaking then classic works of fiction like The Hunt for Red October and Fire Fox. ADVANCE PRAISE FOR FULCRUM “In the grand tradition of Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov…. Anyone who seek to understand the collapse of communism must read this gut-wrenching true book.” —Stephen Coonts, author Under Siege “Fulcrum is a great story. Alex Zuyev gives us an incredibly clear picture of combat aviation in the Soviet Union, tearing apart the curtain of myth and rumor to show us just how the Russian air force trains and fights.” —Larry Bond, author of Vortex ...

Author: Zuyev Alexander Mikhaylovich, McConnell Malcolm
ISBN: 9780446516488
Year of publication: 1992
Genre: Biographies and Memoirs
Number of pages: 429
Reading time: 7 h. 9 min.
Formats: FB2, EPUB, PDF
Language: english
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