A Few Planes for China : The Birth of the Flying Tigers (Hardcover)

from WCHagen

This is a meticulously researched and documented history of America's stumbling and bumbling its way into an alliance with China to counter Japanese aggression in the Far East during the 1930s and early 1940s. The author relies on primary sources—mainly commercial correspondence regarding the bro...

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A close-up look, based on relevant and personal experience, into the confusion and conflicts that preceded the US entry into War in the Pacific. Too few resources, frequently sent to the wrong places made it easy for Japan to close the Burma Road and continue their westward expansion. The irony o...

from Elliot1822

Eugenie Buchan has in her book A Few Planes for China turned upside down the up till now established history of that group of American fighter pilots known as the Flying Tigers or American Volunteer Group(AVG) who early in World War II challenged the Japanese assault on China. She has successfull...

from ralphz

What a disappointing book. I hesitate to say “boring,” but I don't know any other word to use. To be sure, this author's take on the birth of the Flying Tiger program is a challenge to the orthodoxy. She says the oft-told tale that Claire Chennault and the U.S. were the driving forces behind the ...

from moibibliomaniac

This book would be perfect if it were a government report on the birth of the Flying Tigers. Seemingly, every meeting ever conducted in which planes for China were mentioned by government officials appears to be documented in this book. I had to put the book down for good when I was not even half...