I would say that E.K. Gann's "Fate is the Hunter" is the ultimate tribute to the pilot profession...
I've read it 5 times and it's always an inspiration, in fact ,it should be required reading at every ATP course...
I can only warmly recommend it...
Otherwise, "For pilot's eyes only " by Ned Wilson, " Yeager", "100 Missions North" by Bell, "Vulture's Row" by Gilchrist, "Fighter pilot's heaven " by Don Lopez and the classic "Flight of the Intruder".
Also great reading is Fred Rochlin's "Old man in a baseball Cap" and last but not least " Lost Moon" by Jim Lovell...
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" I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure "