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  • The Mira Slovak Story
  • By: David Williams
  • Narrated by: Brian Callanan
  • Length: 16 hrs and 27 mins
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Summary

Mira Slovak was born in Czechoslovakia and endured both the Nazi occupation and the brutal Russian liberation. He joined the Czech Air Force, rising to captain by the age of 21. 

When he could no longer tolerate life under the Communists, he hijacked an airliner and flew across the Iron Curtain to freedom. He went to work for the CIA and was eventually sent to the US and given a job as Bill Boeing, Jr.'s, personal pilot. 

When Boeing began racing hydroplanes in the late 1950s, Mira was his driver. During his 10-year career as a hydroplane driver, he won many races and two national championships. He met presidents and dated movie starlets. 

After a serious hydroplane accident, Slovak switched to airplanes, where he won another national championship. When he retired from racing, he became a stunt pilot and public speaker and talked about the value of freedom and how we should value it above everything else. 

He outlasted communism, and when it collapsed in 1990, he returned to his home, only to realize his true home was and always would be the US.
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MIRA SLOVAK VIVAT

Mira SLOVAK vivat! It's very nice story indeed. I just wish I could listen to this audiobook in SLOVAK language too. Please more books in SLOVAKIAN, Thank you Audible, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!

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Beautifully sad yet inspiring

Loved it, very close to home and my heart indeed. I grew up near to where Mira was born but much later towards the end of communism, my dad didn't have a chance to escape. What a man Mira was. I'd love to have met him. A lot of the moments in the book made me very sad and nostalgic but very proud of his courage and inspiration for others. Beautiful story.

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