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And with a bit of history......W.A. style.....
"I Flew For MMA" - An Airline Pilot's Life - Capt. R. Adkins
ISBN 0 646 29966 2
Depends on your point of view but some readers thought the author was one of the old fashioned me big airline captain troglodytes. Certainly an ego problem. Very much a union nutter. And in his summing up of his "career" flying between Perth and Darwin all his life, he bemoaned that his first officers had bad attiudes because they dare question his decisions.
Far better to read Test Pilot by Neville Duke DSO, OBE, DFC & Two Bars, AFC.
He flew Spitfires, Tomahawks and Kittyhawks against the Germans in WW2. In a previous Pprune post it was mentioned that his books included Sound Barrier, Test Pilot and The Crowded Sky and that he brought home to his readers the realities of test flying at a time when flight approaching the speed of sound was an unknown quantity and literally a Sound Barrier.
It was first published in 1953 and reprinted in paperback in 1997. A wonderful book to read and keep.