Strongly recommended — Ian Toll’s Pacific Crucible
Now that I’ve survived the Christmas swivet and am buckling down to ramp up for China’s Wings’ publication (so much so that I’m probably...
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Ocean Beach surf pics
I’ve been seriously distracted lately… and here I am getting distracted by some of the action at Ocean Beach, courtesy of Bruce Topp at norcalsurfph...
The White Countess, my favorite Shanghai movie
The White Countess, a film that evokes the glitter and grime of 1930s Shanghai. The film wasn't universally well-reviewed, but I confess to loving it. At a num...
China’s Wings book jacket
This in from Bantam yesterday. (With thanks to photographer Stephen Alvarez for use of the pic he took of me in Iran last summer. His gobsmacking website is wel...
What bestselling author James Hornfischer has to say about China’s Wings…
James Hornfischer, bestselling author of Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, Ship of Ghosts, and Neptune’s Inferno recently gave this very generous review ...
An excellent CBI site
an excellent website devoted to the history of the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II
America’s worst foreign policy of all time
The neutrality legislation of the 1930s: I think it's to The United States' everlasting shame that we couldn't discern any principle or outrage worth fighting f...
Quite simply, they thought we’d crumble
Coming from a nation and culture that valued harmony so highly, and one whose “united hundred million” they considered Japan’s greatest asset, they weren’t equ...
Pearl Harbor, a colossal blunder?
The Pearl Harbor attack was an astounding operational success, and it forever shifted the shape of naval warfare. It also strikes me as one of the greatest stra...
The lone flush toilet in Chungking
The toilet had no door, it faced the stairway, and Harold Bixby considered it “about as private as the information booth at Grand Central Station.”