- Paperback: 364 pages
- Publisher: Pimlico; New edition edition (2 Nov 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0712667059
- ISBN-13: 978-0712667050
- Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 15.5 x 3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,152,104 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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General Chuck Yeager was the first man to fly faster than the speed of sound; a World War II flying ace in the US Air Force who later became a test pilot. He operated in the golden age of aviation - the daredevil, death-defying days of the true winged heroes.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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The most rivetting autobiography you will read, legendary!!,
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This review is from: Yeager: An Autobiography (Paperback)
Retired Brigadier General Chuck Yeager is a living aviation legend. A legend who shot down 5 enemy airplanes in one mission, was shot down himself, evaded capture and returned to the UK to be told he had to go home. Yeager was not finished fighting and took his case to General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ike was impressed by the young Pilot Officer who refused to go home. Yeager went on to set many aviation records including being the first man to break the sound barrier in the Bell XS-1. I guarantee that if you buy or read this book, you will come back and read it again and again. The book is written in such a way that even if you are not interested in aviation you will be drawn in by reading this book. Yeager an Autobiography has "other voices" mini interviews with friends and former collegues such as Maj. Gen. Fred J. Ascani, General Albert Boyd, Colonel C.E. "Bud Anderson and also that of General Yeager's wife Glennis. If you only ever read one biography, make it Yeager.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (61 customer reviews) 10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
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A Life Worth Living Vicariously,
By Alfonso Mangione "Loves the three Rs: Readin'... - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Yeager (Paperback)
If I could jump inside one person's head Being-John-Malkovich style and experience their entire life, beginning-to-end, without regard to anything but the sheer roller coaster thrill of it, I'd probably pick Chuck Yeager. (Granted, the guy's not dead yet. But unless he meets a truly horrendous end--eaten alive, say, by Bengal Tigers, while slow-roasting over a barbecue pit--I'd consider myself a truly lucky man to see everything he's seen and do everything he's done.)
Ripping through the sound barrier in a bullet-shaped orange rocket plane, battling Messerschmitts in the cold European skies, testing exotic aircraft of all shapes and sizes in the bleak Mojave desert, hunting and fishing and hiking the high Sierras, hooting and hollering with friends on crazy drunken misadventures--it all sounds too fun to be legal, and except for the hooting and hollering part, I haven't done any of it. What's more, he lived the kind of life that people don't seem to believe in anymore, the life of the self-made man who rises from nothing, who picks himself up by his own bootstraps and succeeds through good ol' Yankee Doodle initiative, ability and gumption. One of the nice things about this book, though, is that he doesn't rub it in. He's the first one to acknowledge how lucky he's been to live the life he's lived and live to tell about it. An upside-down-bolt on an airplane aileron, parachute shroud lines that almost burnt through after an ejection gone awry--any of these things could have ended this remarkable life long before old age, and he knows it. Beyond the good luck, though, he knew enough not to press his luck. One realizes, reading this book, that Yeager's flying career's remarkable not because he took chances, but because he didn't get so cocky and full of himself that he took one chance too many. In the test pilot business, it's better to fade away than to burn out (or up). I last read this when I was a kid, not long after it came out--I'd been blown away by "The Right Stuff" and was nuts about everything aviation-and-space related. I don't think I've seen it in twenty years, but I've had a hankering to read it for a while now, so I picked it up, put down the boring weighty intellectual tomes I usually read, and ripped through it in a couple days, eagerly smuggling it into the bathroom at work to steal some pleasure out of the boring workday. I'll never live this life, never get a pilot's license--with my narcolepsy and my bad eyes, I probably shouldn't even have a driver's license--but thanks to this book I can live Chuck Yeager's life vicariously, for a couple days, anyway. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Balls Out!!!,
By Richard Ross-Adams - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Yeager (Paperback)
Legendary flying ace Chuck Yeager has put on paper not only his life, but his amazing character as well.Since I was a child I was told the stories of Chuck Yeager by my brothers.One of whom was an aviator himself, and was in awe of this man. When I read his autobiography, which is definitely one of the best books I've ever read, I felt a new kind of respect for the man. A man who was never given a college education, yet managed to be one of the greatest aviators and men in history. He overcame the odds more than a few times. What touched me most about this book was it's honesty.He never embellishes the truth, and tells it like it is, always. The book may not be the best articulated book in history, but that is because that is not Chuck's way. He recounts all the major events in aviation history with a style that reveals his passion, and his determination that if you are going to do something, do it right.Eloquently put by Chuck, do it balls out. I most enjoyed his manner in the book, fun loving without losing sight of himself, his demeanour is that of a mischievous brother who'll stand up for what he believes in, no matter what. This man is a role model and one of the world's finest heroes. Read the book and meet the man. 8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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A straight shooting biography of several amazing lives.,
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This review is from: Yeager (Paperback)
Yeager personafied the WWII generation, the finest ever produced by America. His humble description of his amazing life is inspiring to all and incredible to those with a love of aviation. Besides his own history, he chronicles the life of several other people, such as lady pilots Pancho Barnes and Jackie Cochran, who also lived lives that read like movie scripts. A book that has to be read several times to be fully appreciated. Also check out "The First and the Last", by Adolf Galland, for an equally unusual true account by a great aviator and leader. Farron Dacus, Irving, Texas.
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