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NEW FROM THE NYT BESTSELLING AVIATION HISTORIANAt the dawn of the Cold War, a band of WWII aces gathered in the Mojave Desert on a Top Secret quest to break the sound barrier. The true story of what happened in those skies has never been told.Speed. In 1947, it represented the difference between victory and annihilation. After Hiroshima, the ability to deliver a nuclear device to its target faster than one’s enemy became the singular obsession of American war planners. And so, in the earliest days of the Cold War, a highly classified program was conducted on a desolate air base in California’s Mojave Desert. Its aim: to push the envelope of flight to new frontiers. There gathered an extraordinary band of pilots, including Second World War aces Chuck Yeager and George Welch, who risked their lives flying experimental aircraft to reach Mach 1, the so-called sound barrier, which pilots called “the demon.” Shrouding the program in secrecy, the US military reluctantly revealed that the “barrier” had been broken two months later, after the story was leaked to the press. The full truth has never been fully revealed — until now. Chasing the Demon, from decorated fighter pilot and acclaimed

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Author

Dan Hampton

Publisher

William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062688743

Category

hobbies

Subjects

Engineering, Stem

Rating

4.2 / 5 (186 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14