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- Objectstaat
- PublishedOn
- 2017-12-19
- ISBN
- 9781611688665
- EAN
- 9781611688665
- Book Title
- Few Planes for China : the Birth of the Flying Tigers
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- University Press of New England
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- History
- Topic
- Military / World War II, Asia / General
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 272 Pages
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On December 7, 1941, the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor plunged the United States into armed conflict with Japan. In the following months, the Japanese seemed unbeatable as they seized American, British, and European territory across the Pacific: the Philippines, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Dutch East Indies. Nonetheless, in those dark days, the US press began to pick up reports about a group of American mercenaries who were bringing down enemy planes over Burma and western China. The pilots quickly became known as Flying Tigers, and a legend was born. But who were these flyers for hire and how did they wind up in the British colony of Burma? The standard version of events is that in 1940 Colonel Claire Chennault went to Washington and convinced the Roosevelt administration to establish, fund, and equip covert air squadrons that could attack the Japanese in China and possibly bomb Tokyo even before a declaration of war existed between the United States and Japan. That was hardly the case: although present at its creation, Chennault did not create the American Volunteer Group. In A Few Planes for China, Eugenie Buchan draws on wide-ranging new sources to overturn seventy years of received wisdom about the genesis of the Flying Tigers. This strange experiment in airpower was accidental rather than intentional; haphazard decisions and changing threat perceptions shaped its organization and deprived it of resources. In the end it was the British--more than any American in or out of government--who got the Tigers off the ground. On the eve of Pearl Harbor, the most important man behind the Flying Tigers was not Claire Chennault but Winston Churchill.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University Press of New England
ISBN-10
1611688663
ISBN-13
9781611688665
eBay Product ID (ePID)
236962486
Product Key Features
Book Title
Few Planes for China : the Birth of the Flying Tigers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, Asia / General
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ds777.533.A35b83
Reviews
"Eugenie Buchan . . . has meticulously turned upside down the fable of that doughty band of Yank fighter pilots known as the Flying Tigers who early in World War II challenged the Japanese air assault on China. In so doing she has challenged orthodox World War II history and forces us to reconsider the broader story of just how America got entangled in the affairs of the corrupt, incompetent regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. . . . Debunking that myth, plus her well-written narrative of the AVG's origins makes Ms. Buchan's book an essential case study of how American foreign policy often goes so wrong."-- The Washington Times, "One of Ms. Buchan's great contributions to the history of the Flying Tigers is to debunk the self-promoting story that Chennault peddled in his postwar memoir, "Way of a Fighter" (1949), which saw him arriving in Washington from China at the end of 1940 and, as if by magic, single-handedly creating the AVG over the course of the next few months. Historians and writers, including this reviewer, have largely cleaved to that story ever since. Ms. Buchan presents a corrective account that is more complicated, provocative and interesting--and probably more accurate.", This is an impressive revisionist monograph that unpicks one of the more mythic events in the history of World War II in Asia: the founding of the 'Flying Tigers', the nickname for the American Volunteer Group (AVG) that operated in China in the years before Pearl Harbor. . . A compellingly-written and deeply researched account that will be of great interest to all scholars of the history of airpower in World War II., The book traces the tortuous birth of the Flying Tigers. Where it breaks new ground is in showing that the British were crucial in getting them into combat. . . Eugenie Buchan, whose grandfather played an important initial role in this story has done a fine job in revealing the extent of British involvement.
Table of Content
Introduction * Chiang's Rotten Air Force * Burma Roads * Plane Aid * Bruce Leighton's Guerrilla Air Corps * Business, the Chinese Way * T. V. Soong's Mission to Washington * A Few Planes for China * Roosevelt's Dilemma * Bombing Japan * Tomahawks for China * Robbing Churchill to Pay Chiang * The Private Military Contractor * Diplomatic Skirmishes * Reinforcing the Philippines * Favoring Currie * The Mercenary's Contract * Recruiters and Recruited * The International Air Force * Staying on in Burma * Squabbling over Bullets * AVG Summer Camp * The Short-Term Air Program for China * Currie Gets in a Jam * Magruder's Mission * Countdown to War * Epilogue * Acknowledgments * Notes
Copyright Date
2017
Lccn
2017-018922
Dewey Decimal
940.54420951
Dewey Edition
23
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