This early edition of Daniel Ford's prize-winning history of the Flying Tigers is out of print. Search the Amazon store for 0692734732for the revised and updated third edition..

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942

History

Ford, Daniel

Asia

HarperCollins|Smithsonian Books

Go tell the Spartans

Jove Publications

This is the Vietnam War novel that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam -- and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack, and the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the mistakes of the French! "Sad, bawdy, and compelling," wrote the Detroit Free Press -- and prophetic, too, of how the larger war would end. "A fine novel" (Library Journal) "The greatest work to date on the Vietnam involvement" (Cincinnati Enquirer).

Incident at Muc Wa: A Novel of War in Southeast Asia

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Brill Academic Pub

When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two American fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force, with their English and Burmese girlfriends, and a Japanese suicide pilot whose name happens to mean "tree of the sun"--they clash at Rangoon, while the British empire falls about their ears. Here is a story of the Flying Tigers, immortalized by their exploits in Southeast Asia in the opening months of the Pacific War, as told by a man uniquely qualified to write about those stirring times. Ford's history of the Flying Tigers won the award of excellence from the Aviation-Space Writers Association, while his novel of the Vietnam war inspired the Burt Lancaster film _Go Tell the Spartans_, which the _Cincinnati Enquirer_ called "one of the noblest films, ever, about men in crisis." Here he deftly melds fact and fiction in an unforgettable wartime romance. "You can't beat remains, kid," Lieutenant Atherton says in a beautifully limned conclusion. "They'll tell the story every time."

Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers)

United States

Authors Choice Pr

Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thousand miles of trails, the White Mountains have long been a hiker's paradise. Here is a first-person account of the world that begins where the pavement ends. Fishermen, backpackers, trail-bikers ... goofers, peak baggers, and through hikers ... you'll find them all in the White Mountains, and you'll meet them all in the pages of this compelling book.The year is 1975, when it was still possible to find space in a lean-to shelter, when the Old Man of the Mountains still showed his splendid profile over Franconia Notch, and when hikers still smoked.

The Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal

Travel

Backinprint.com

This is an out of print and inferior edition. Click on Other Editions or put 1479194727 in the Amazon search window to find the 2017 edition from Warbird Books. -- Daniel Ford

The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam

Military

When he set out on his road to rebellion, Michael Ford only wanted to keep the foxes out of Hannon's Glen. But before he was done, he found himself exchanging rifle fire with the British army, with an unlikely ally in the form of Annabel Love, the squire's daughter. "Michael's War" tracks the course of revolution and civil war that rended Ireland from 1916 to 1923. It ends with its hero escaping to America-but what sweetheart will he ask to join him in the new world?

Michael's War: A Story of the Irish Republican Army

Asja Pr

When he set out on his road to rebellion, Michael Ford only wanted to keep the foxes out of Hannon's Glen. But before he was done, he found himself exchanging rifle fire with the British army, with an unlikely ally in the form of Annabel Love, the squire's daughter. "Michael's War" tracks the course of revolution and civil war that rended Ireland from 1916 to 1923. It ends with its hero escaping to America--but what sweetheart will he ask to join him in the new world?

During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and in turn won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month and a bounty of $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down—fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night. 
To bring his prize-winning history of the American Volunteer Group up to date, Daniel Ford has twice rewritten his original text, drawing on the most recent U.S., British, and Japanese scholarship, along with new information about AVG pilots and crewmen, their Royal Air Force colleagues, and their Japanese opponents. 
"Admirable," wrote Chennault biographer Martha Byrd of Ford's original text. "A readable book based on sound sources. Expect some surprises." Flying Tigers won the Aviation/Space Writers Association Award of Excellence in the year of its first publication.

Warbird Books

A 12-year-old describes his 9-day struggles to survive after being separated from his friends in the mountains of Maine.

Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal

Sports & Outdoors

Hiking & Camping

Countryman Pr

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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942

Go tell the Spartans

Incident at Muc Wa: A Novel of War in Southeast Asia

Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers)

The Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal

The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam

Michael's War: A Story of the Irish Republican Army

Michael's War: A Story of the Irish Republican Army

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942

Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal