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Loading... Stranger to the Ground (1963)by Richard Bach
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. The several pages that were about the actual flight were good. Everything else was pompous bloviating. ( ) During the Cold War Richard Bach's U.S. Air Force Reserve Unit got called up and deployed to Europe. This book mainly focuses on one mission: a night flight during a storm from England to France to deliver some documents. Bach spends a lot of time talking about the airplane and his thoughts while flying, but he also flashes back to some of his other experiences while in the Air Force. This book was harder to get into than Bach's other books because its focus was so narrow and technical. I was also turned off by the way he looks down on people who don't love to fly as much as he does. The way he looks at the world and his love of flying is usually inspiring, but for some reason he just came across as narrow-minded in this book. However, it was really interesting to hear about how the U.S. military prepared for a possible war with Russia during the Cold War. Bach's first (I think) book: His recounting of what it was like to fly jet fighters for the U. S. Air Force in Europe at the height of the Cold War. The prose isn't as polished and lyrical as it would become in Nothing by Chance, but it's a well-turned book about an under-documented place and time. It also has one of my absolute all-time favorite flying-memoir titles: right up there with Fate Is The Hunter and Wind, Sand, and Stars. no reviews | add a review
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A man alone in the sky has a chance to touch the stars. But as Richard Bach, flying a lone jet across Europe, reaches for the eternal, he must also confront the fear and danger that shadow the unknown. No library descriptions found. |
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