Topgun

DISCOVER THE EXHILARATING TRUE STORY BEHIND THE ACTION-PACKED CLASSIC FILM<BR><BR>'GOOSE AND MAVERICK MOVE OVER . . .' Admiral James Stavridis<BR>________<BR><BR>March 1969.<BR><BR>American jets are getting shot down at an unprecedented rate over Vietnam. In an urgent effort to regain the advantage the Admirals turn to a young naval aviator called Dan Pedersen.<BR><BR>Officially, the programme he set up was called the US Navy Fighter Weapons School. To everyone else it was known simply as TOPGUN.<BR><BR>Pedersen's hand-picked team of instructors - the Original Eight - were the best of the best. Together, they revolutionised aerial warfare and rediscovered the lost art of fighter combat.<BR><BR>This is the extraordinary, thrilling story of how TOPGUN saw America reclaim the skies, by the man who created it.<BR>________<BR><BR>'It's hard to read Dan Pederson's Topgun and not think of Tom Cruise. A pleasure to read' Wall Street Journal<BR><BR>'Direct, vivid and unvarnished. A high-flying, supersonic tale' Hampton Sides, author of Ghost Soldiers<BR><BR>'Topgun earned Dan Pedersen the title of American Hero' Washington Times<BR><BR>'A riveting seat-of-the-pants flight into the lethal world of the fighter pilot' Dan Hampton, author of Viper Pilot