Wings of the Morning: The Flights of Orestes Lorenzo
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Book Overview
A few days before Christmas 1992, in a feat of astonishing audacity, former Cuban Air Force Major Orestes Lorenzo, flying an aging Cessna, banked sharply over Matanzas, Cuba, touched down on a busy highway, and roared off moments later with the wife and sons he had left behind when he defected to America 21 months before.--Washington Post. To be a fall '93 TV production.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0312100086
ISBN13:9780312100087
Release Date:January 1993
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Length:346 Pages
Weight:1.55 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.5" x 9.5"
Customer Reviews
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Great read; fascinating insight
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 16 years ago
I read this book right after it was published. This book offers great insight into the development of Cuban pilots and their association with the Russians. It describes the transformation of a top-notch Cuban Mig pilot into someone who would eventually become so disillusioned that he decided his only option was to defect. I was lucky enough to have met and befriended Orestes before he rescued his family. Then after his family got here, I met his wife and sons. We have not been in touch for a few years. I always told Orestes that his book would be a good movie and he agreed but he said that in his talks with interested movie studios, they wanted to stray too far from the actual story so that is why it would likely always remain "just" a book.
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