Orphaned at the end of World War Two Yefgenii Yeremin grows into a man determined to be the best and you will soon find yourself willing him on. He becomes a fighter ace in the Korean War and is then trained as an astronaut. A mixture of fact and fiction, Ascent is packed with vivid descriptions of fighting and flying and it builds to a conclusion which will stay in your mind long after you have closed the book. Page-turner might have been invented to describe this novel, I read it in two sittings.
