Yeager: An Autobiography by Chuck Yeager
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Book Summary Author: Chuck Yeager Edition: Paperback Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published) Published: 1986-09-01 ISBN: 0553256742 Number of pages: 448 Publisher: Bantam |
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Book Reviews of the Yeager: An Autobiography
Customer Review: A True American Hero
Summary: 3 Stars
General Yeager's book is very inspiring and gives an honest account of how fighter pilots live and die with each other.
This story takes you from the backwoods boy that General Yeager was to the young, high school educated pilot he became for the Air Corps in WWII who, despite being shot down, was able to evade capture behind enemy lines. After the war he describes the various air shows as well as his trials with breaking the sound barrier, which was incredible.
There are very welcome imparts from his wife and some of the soldiers he worked with.
Halfway through, however, the book becomes less than exciting. General Yeager must have mentioned about 20 times that he loved flying "balls out" and that that's how they always flew - balls out. After the tenth time you get the point that their balls were out and they loved flying that way, but just in case you don't understand that they loved flying balls out he tells you over and over and over again.
Being a boots on the ground Marine, myself, I had trouble relating to the balls out references. The ground is dirty and we want to keep our balls, so we tuck them in securely and clean them regularly.
I'd reccomend this book to anyone with a remote interest on this subject matter, even if they only saw the movie, The Right Stuff, which General Yeager was said not to have because he didn't have a college degree.