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'BEAR: Flight to Liberty': Thriller Over the Northern Atlantic Outlines Perils, Perseverance in Flight for Freedom
March 31st, 2009
In 1976, Capt. Mikhail Makarov leads the crew of a Soviet TU-95 Bear D airplane in their defection from the USSR, his decision to leave his homeland decades in the making. "BEAR: Flight to Liberty" (published by iUniverse) by Miguel Vargas-Caba tells the crew's thrilling story. Led by Capt. Makarov, who must convince his crew to leave with him, the defectors develop a plan to avoid the potentially fatal attention of innumerable Soviet military officers and KGB stooges, by coinciding their escape during a week of Soviet naval and aircraft maneuvers over the Northern Atlantic. After subverting command and setting several harrowing diversions, the crew, now aboard the Red...
Source: Science Letter (2009-03-31)
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