Vuelo Hacia El Amanecer: El Vuelo de Orestes Lorenzo [Spanish]

by Orestes Lorenzo

Book Overview

Former Cuban Air Force Major Orestes Lorenzo describes his audacious rescue of his family from Cuba, detailing his own defection and his daring flight to his homeland, his landing on a busy highway,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 0312100094
• ISBN13: 9780312100094
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

very intense book, you want to keep reading it

i was kind of sad when i finished reading it, it's just so interesting it really makes you want to read more and more, i bought a couple more related to the subject and i think this is by far the best of the three

Orestes' odyssey

Vuelo hacia el amanecer (Flight at Dawn) is the tale of one's man's struggle in his fight against the forces of evil. The evil in this case is the dictatorial regime of Fidel Castro's Cuba. The author recounts his life from childhood to adulthood. Through his account we penetrate deep into the mind of a true and devout communist, a student, a fighter-pilot, a world traveller, a father, a son, a loving husband and finally a defector. Through his ordeal we live his pain and his agonies. When at last he finds freedom abroad in the United States, his travails are not over. He then embarks on another mission: How to rescue his wife and children from "Castro's HELL" ... and thus - the title of the book - his flight with his family into freedom. EXCELLENT reading!