Highly readable and highly recommended. - Model Aircraft. I can't recommend this book enough. If you are into your 'covert aircraft' stories, where the facts are even stranger than the fiction, then you'll enjoy this book. - Airfix Model World. Highly readable and highly recommended. - Scale Aviation Modeller International. Fascinating stuff. - Air Classics This book is highly recommended for modelers interested in modern soviet aircraft, and the history of USAF aggressor aircraft and tactics. - IPMS/USA "As one of the project's masterminds and its first commander, Peck delivers an account replete with first-person detail..." Air & Space/Smithsonian "... the fascinating history of the men who trained to fly and maintain covertly obtained MiGs, for the first time providing an insider's perspective, personal anecdotes, and photographs, revealing how Colonel Peck battled bureaucracy and skepticism to ultimately establish the premier fighter pilot training center -- the real Top Gun." --Savannah Jones, www.sirereadalot.org "chapters pack in a history of the pilots, the missions, and the military concepts behind them, making this a fine survey of the little-known Red Eagles project recommended for any military holding." - The Midwest Book Review