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Come Up And Get Me: An Autobiography Of Colonel Joseph Kittinger
A few years after his release from a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp in 1973, Colonel Joseph Kittinger retired from the Air Force. Restless and unchallenged, he turned to ballooning, a lifelong passion as well as a constant diversion for his imagination during his imprisonment. His primary goal was a solitary circumnavigation of the globe, and in its pursuit he set s
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Hardcover
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256 pages
Published
June 16th 2010
by University of New Mexico Press
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I really liked this book, from the personality of the man, through the early history of space adventure and his experience in Vietnam, to his years as a barnstormer and balloon racer.
The history was concise and clear, the personal recollections interesting, and the pictures added just enough to have me digging for more. Colonel Kittinger has three life stories in here at least, all of them interesting, and he's not done yet. Well done!
The history was concise and clear, the personal recollections interesting, and the pictures added just enough to have me digging for more. Colonel Kittinger has three life stories in here at least, all of them interesting, and he's not done yet. Well done!
It reads like a memoir of a man I would have loved to have as a grandfather or great-uncle. The stories are interesting and vivid, the narrative is well-edited and concisrpe, and the tone is folksy (in a good way). I really hope that Col. Kittinger does a second edition with a chapter about the Red Bull Stratos project.
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