This book, Destined for Glory, chronicles the life of a most unique individual, a man who confronts, and deals with, what seems to the average observer, as insurmountable hurdles. Our main character is made of a fiber harder than steel, with a relentless
will to not only survive, but to excel.
A sense of duty, devotion to his father, and an unending love of freedom,have been magically forged into a powerful magnetic field, a field that draws our character to achieve his destiny.
The son of a German Luftwaffe pilot, Karl Adler escapes from war-torn Europe, after a perilous journey, he reaches Cuba, where he becomes a man. He joins the revolution against Batista’s government, becoming a guerrilla chief in the mountains of the Escambray. After the revolution triumphs, following in his father’s footsteps, he becomes a pilot in Castro’s air force. He sadly becomes disillusioned with the course that Castro has set for Cuba. He decides to defect to the United States; Adler achieves that by flying his fighter plane to the shores of America.
After weeks of interrogation by American security organs, Aguilar is granted political asylum.Carlos joins with other Cuban exiles, taking part in the U.S.-sponsored invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs; after that debacle, he enlists in the United States Army, where he rises to become a powerful driving force in the new radical strategic concept of coordinated air-ground assault. Aguilar becomes a prime target of the Cuban government as a result of Castro’s humiliation, resulting from Aguilar’s defection; the dictatorship orders his assassination.
Follow our man’s life journey; his escape from Cuba, his return to the swamps of the Bay of Pigs, and his service in the jungles of Vietnam as an American helicopter pilot. Share the adventure of this most unusual man.
At this most inopportune time in his life, he falls in love; this event adds another dimension to his life; filling Carlos’ soul with the love he has always longed for.
Follow our man’s life journey; his escape from Cuba, his return to the swamps of the Bay of Pigs, and his service in the jungles of Vietnam as an American helicopter pilot. Share the adventure of this most unusual man.