China's Wings War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight

Name: China's Wings War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
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ISBN: 9780553804270

ISBN-10: 0553804278

ISBN-13: 9780553804270

Edition: 2012

Authors: Gregory Crouch

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From the acclaimed author ofEnduring Patagoniacomes a dazzling tale of aerial adventure set against the roiling backdrop of war in Asia. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wingsis one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National…

Book details

List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/28/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 528
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.75" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Author's Note


Glossary of Chinese Place-Names


Winter 1931



The Middle Kingdom



Saint Patrickï¿½s Day, 1931



"You Won't Be Able to Handle the Pilots"



"This Airline Is a Partnership"



Cake and Champagne



Route Three



A Pan Am Man and a Woman Named Kitsi



The Last of the Salad Days



War



Things Fall Apart



The Cavalry



Shanghai November



Resurrection



Going with the Wind



The Provisional Capital



The Kweilin Incident



The Evacuation of Hankow



Meeting Madame



Bombing Season



Ventricular Tachycardia



A Wing and a Spare, No Prayers Needed



"Those Planes Are Japanese!"



The Hump



In the Fight



"For Us It Started Five Years Ago"



Clipping the Edge of Bedrock



"We'll Be Talking About That for the Rest of Our Lives"



Not the Worst Way to Fight a War



To Lose a Friend



Getting His



The Gold Missions



Endgame


Epilogue


Acknowledgments


Bibliography


Notes


Index