CNAC and the Flying Tigers
CNAC and the Flying Tigers… and that’s the American Volunteer Group, the real Flying Tigers, not just any old US Army Air Corps pilot who served in...
Category: China’s Wings
Posts related to my book, CHINA’S WINGS
The Maiden flight of CNAC’s Douglas Dolphin over Shanghai, 1934
Down at the bottom you’ll find CNAC’s first Douglas Dolphin on its maiden flight in 1934, but it’s old Shanghai that makes this picture so enj...
CNAC wreckage found in Western China
Bob Willett, CNAC association member and author of An Airline at War: The Story of the China National Aviation Corporation and Its Men, and Clayton Kuhles of MI...
Some of my best friends, and some more on Barbara Tuchman
Building on what I said yesterday about how Barbara Tuchman’s book Practicing History helped me organize my research, through the years, I’ve read m...
Practicing History, or, How Barbara Tuchman saved my bacon
Barbara Tuchman's book Practicing History taught me the system for organizing research on 4x6 index cards that I used to great effect while writing China's Wing...
China’s Wings now available for pre-order
I think it’ll only be another few weeks before I get my advance copies of China’s Wings. My guess is that I’ll have them in the last week of J...
Exciting first ascents completed in Patagonia this season
I’ve got Patagonia on the brain having given Enduring Patagonia’s Winter West Face slide show to the Rock, Ice, Mountain Club in Santa Rosa last nig...
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...
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...