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...
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Posts related to my book, CHINA’S WINGS
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.”
Moon Chin’s favorite airplane-the Douglas Dolphin
The Dolphins’ wings were skinned with plywood, and the nails tended to loosen with the impact of each water landing. One of Moon Chin’s copilot duties was to no...
What #1 bestselling author James Bradley has to say about China’s Wings
Yesterday was a big day. Working back and forth with my editors at Bantam, we closed the last detail. China’s Wings is finished. Took seven and a half yea...
CNAC and the Long March
it was surely no coincidence that eighty-six thousand soldiers of the Communist Red Army began crossing the Yadu River that day, taking the first steps of a yea...