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China's wings : war, intrigue, romance, and adventure in the Middle Kingdom during the Golden Age of Flight / Gregory Crouch.
Lippincott Library HE9878.C47 C76 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Crouch, Gregory, 1966-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- China National Aviation Corporation.
- Airlines--China.
- Airlines.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 498 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Bantam Books, [2012]
- Summary:
- "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"--Jacket.
- Contents:
- Saint Patrick's day, 1931
- "You won't be able to handle the pilots"
- "This airline is a partnership"
- Cake and champagne
- Route three
- A Pan Am man and a woman named Kitsi
- The last of the salad days
- Things fall apart
- The cavalry
- Shanghai November
- Resurrection
- The provisional capital
- The Kweilin incident
- The evacuation of Hankow
- Meeting Madame
- Bombing season
- Ventricular tachycardia
- a wing and a spare, no prayers needed
- "Those planes are Japanese!"
- In the fight
- "For us it started five years ago"
- Clipping the edge of bedrock
- "We'll be talking about that for the rest of our lives"
- Not the worst way to fight a war
- To lose a friend
- Getting his
- The gold missions
- Endgame.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780553804270
- 0553804278
- 9780345532350
- 034553235X
- OCLC:
- 727610588
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