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Proud To Be: My Life, the Air Force, the Controversy by Kelly Flinn. (1997, Hard

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Item specifics

Condition
Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Subject
Military & War
ISBN
9780375501098

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375501096
ISBN-13
9780375501098
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2061520

Product Key Features

Book Title
Proud to Be : My Life, the Air Force, the Controversy
Number of Pages
259 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1997
Topic
Women, Military / United States, Aeronautics & Astronautics, Military
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Law, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
Kelly Flinn
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
20.9 Oz
Item Length
9.8 in
Item Width
6.7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
97-041542
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
358.4/0092 B
Synopsis
An extraordinary young woman. An extraordinary controversy. This is Kelly Flinn's story--the one she couldn't tell when she was in uniform. "I fell in love with the wrong man."--Kelly Flinn She is the first woman to pilot a B-52, a charismatic twenty-six-year-old from a proper Georgia family who has always distinguished herself--as a fifteen- year-old at U.S. Space Camp and as a cadet at the U.S. Air Force Academy. There, she overcame considerable odds and earned a coveted position as a combat pilot. But nothing prepared Lieutenant Kelly Flinn for the controversy that erupted when the military began an investigation into her relationship with Marc Zigo, a man who lied to her about his marital status and then betrayed her to military authorities. Flinn was forced to resign amid charges of disobeying orders--charges she disputes in this poignant and powerful memoir. This is the story of Flinn's love affair with flying . . . and the love affair that ended her trailblazing Air Force career. This is also the story of a determined young woman fighting for her rightful place in a military establishment run by men, many of whom are not yet ready to accept a female combat pilot. Flinn reveals examples of hypocrisy and sexism in the military that are, by any standard, infuriating. She rose higher and fell harder, but Kelly Flinn's story is universal, and it powerfully dramatizes the fault lines between our private and professional lives. With disarming candor, Flinn takes us inside her world. We feel her exhilaration as she soars through the sky and commands her own plane,and we share her horror as the love she dreamed of turns into a nightmare and she must battle the military's sex police behind closed doors. Kelly Flinn has been called "the Hester Prynne of our time," and her life has been depicted in the media as a combination of Top Gun and The Scarlet Letter. In Proud to Be, she speaks in her own voice--determined, vulnerable, and all too human.
LC Classification Number
UG626.2.F59A3 1997

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