e-branch	Login My List - 0 Help
	Home   My Account/Renew Loans   Community Info   KidSearch   New Catalogue!

Search Advanced By Format By Number My Searches Can't Find it? Find Magazine Articles & more Problems?

Search:  Call NumberItem BarcodeBib NumberISBN/ISSN       Refine Search     > You're searching: Halifax Public Libraries

Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Kleiner, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller), 1987-     Subjects     Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958.     China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group -- History.     Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Aerial operations.     Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Participation, American.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Kleiner, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller), 1987-       by title:      The Flying Tigers : ...       by call number:      951.042 K646f     Search the Web     Kleiner, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller), 1987-     Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958.     China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group -- History.     Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Aerial operations.     Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Participation, American.       MARC Display

The Flying Tigers : the untold story of the American pilots who waged a secret war against Japan / Sam Kleiner. by Kleiner, Samuel M. (Samuel Miller), 1987- Viking, 2018. Call #: 951.042 K646f Subjects Chennault, Claire Lee, 1893-1958.   China. Kong jun. American Volunteer Group -- History.   Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Aerial operations.   Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 -- Participation, American. ISBN:  9780399564130 (hc.) Description:  v, 294 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-284) and index. Contents:  Dancing in the sky -- Meeting the princess -- The Rape of Nanking -- The international squadron -- Exile in the Chinese hinterland -- An air unit for China -- Training in Toungoo -- Wartime -- Legends in their own time -- Christmas in Rangoon -- Burmese days -- Aerial guerrilla warfare -- Last stand -- Black sheep down. Summary:  "The thrilling story behind the American pilots who were secretly recruited to defend the nation's desperate Chinese allies before Pearl Harbor and ended up on the front lines of the war against the Japanese in the Pacific. Sam Kleiner's Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. These 300 individuals were effectively paid mercenaries, secretly recruited by a mysterious shell company that the federal government had created to circumvent its official stance of non-intervention in the war. Drawn from across the armed services by the prospect of seeing the world and earning a good salary, they traveled to Burma under false identities in the late summer and fall of 1941 and began training there under legendary and leathery general Claire Chennault. The pilots first saw action twelve days after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and for the next seven months performed an invaluable strategic service by keeping the Japanese occupied in China and thus enabling the United States to build up its armaments before fully engaging in the conflict. For their daring exploits and remarkable string of victories, they became known as the Flying Tigers"--From publisher. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 951.042 K646f Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList Tantallon Public Library Adult Nonfiction 951.042 K646f Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M

© 2001-2013 SirsiDynix All rights reserved.