Airplanes, Women, and Song: Memoirs of a Fighter Ace, Test Pilot, and Adventurer

by Boris Sergievsky and Adam Hochschild

Book Overview

Boris Sergievsky was one of the most colorful of the early aviators. He made his first flight less than ten years after the Wright brothers made theirs; he made his last only four years before the Concorde took off. Born in Russia, Sergievsky learned to fly in 1912. In World War I, he became a much-decorated infantry officer and then a fighter pilot, battling the Austro-Hungarians. During the Russian Civil War that followed, he fought on three...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815605455
• ISBN13: 9780815605454
• Release Date: December 1998
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.3" x 9.3"