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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed

ENDURING COURAGE is the electrifying story of the beginning of America’s love affair with speed --- and how one man above all the rest showed a nation the way forward. Eddie Rickenbacker was an innovator on the racetrack, a skilled aerial dualist and squadron commander, and founder of Eastern Air Lines. He showed a war-weary nation what it took to survive against nearly insurmountable odds when he and seven others endured a harrowing three-week ordeal adrift without food or water in the Pacific during World War II.

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Enduring Courage: Ace Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker and the Dawn of the Age of Speed
by John F. Ross

  • Publication Date: May 5, 2015
  • Genres: Biography, History, Military, Nonfiction
  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
  • ISBN-10: 1250033845
  • ISBN-13: 9781250033840

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