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Tucson, AZ: Westernlore Press, 1995 Westernlore Press, Tucson, AZ. 1995. Hardcover. First Edition. Signed by the author on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good +; slight wear to top of front board. DJ: Very Good; sunfading to spine; light wear to head, tail, and tips. Red leatherette boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. 250 pp 8vo. The author is well-known for his extraordinary success as an international marketer of business jets but little is know about how he got there especially from a life torn between the Germans and the Russians in WWII Hungary. From military intelligence to Beach was a jump but so to Learjet as head of export. This book is not just about the author but also about aircraft companies, heads of state, industrialists, and the aviation world in general. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.
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Alex in Wonderland: A Life of High Adventure from War-Torn Europe to the World of Aviation Hardcover - 1995
by Zimmerman, John
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- Title Alex in Wonderland: A Life of High Adventure from War-Torn Europe to the World of Aviation
- Author Zimmerman, John
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 250
- Publisher Westernlore Pr, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
- Date 1995
- ISBN 9780870260919
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Content appears as new, unopened, unread & unblemished in red textured boards displaying no significant surface/edge wear.Hungary, justly proud of its rich heritage, may boast of at least one legendary icon in the arts, science, technology and other fields of endeavor. But not until Alex Kvassay came along did a native son achieve such universal renown in the fast-moving world of corporate aviation. Here in a free-flowing style, Kvassay writes lucidly of his most memorable, often terrifying experiences. They range from his youth in a Budapest under siege to his extraordinary success as an international marketer of business jets and, ultimately, to his exciting life in retirement. An entertaining, enlightening book, his words are witty, insightful, compelling. Alex was still in high school when the horrors of World War II stormed across the Hungarian border in 1944. How he outwitted the Nazi invaders and their Soviet conquerors, whom he describes as an even worse enemy, is…
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