When I first made captain in a jet, a friend of mine gave me Fate is the Hunter ( Ernie Gann ) and I read it in a day. What a great book. Another book that I found quite interesting was;
Stalin’s Aviation Gulag: A Memoir of Andrei Tupolev and the Purge Era by Leonid Lvovich Kerber, edited by Von Hardesty. Smithsonian Institution Press. How the hell they ever designed and produced aircraft under those conditions is a testament to human fortitude. I haven't read too many books as riveting as this one. You'll have a whole new found respect for Soviet made aircraft, at least the designers....
