China's Wings: War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (612 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553804278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 528 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Excellent read!. Four Stars Good for pilots not so sure for non flyers. An adventure story Topically, China's Wings is the story of China National Air Corporation, and the role it played in the development of China immediately prior to and during WWII. But that is not really what the book is about. The book is about ordinary people who found themselves in an extraordinary situation, and became extraordinary people. Crouch's narration is so vivid, his characterizations so skillfully drafted, the real life plot so compelling, that at times it is hard to remember that what you're reading is non-fiction. Given how impeccable Crouch's research is and how well docu
The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. The incredible real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II—and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict—China’s Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his p
I didn't get around to pursuing Charlie's lead until months later. I spent dozens of hours with Moon Fun Chin, a remarkable man born in an obscure South China village in 1913 who began flying for CNAC in the early 1930s, piloted the last evacuation flights from Hankow in 1938 and Hong Kong in December, 1941, amassed many thousands of flying hours with the company through its years on the Hump (including taking Tokyo raider Jimmy Doolittle out of China in 1942), and ended up owning his own airline after the war. Gregory Crouch on China's Wings The seed that became Chin