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Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers)
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Remains (a story of the Flying Tigers)
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by Daniel Ford
Sales Rank : 802407
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Paperback: 239 pages
Publisher: AuthorHouse September 5, 2000
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0595126790
ISBN-13: 978-0595126798
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
Product Review
"A cracking good yarn about interesting people, including the Japanese fighter pilot whose story adds special realism to the battles." -- Air & Space / Smithsonian magazine, Oct-Nov 2001
Product Description
When young Eddie Gillespie discovers a World War II airplane in the jungle, with a grinning skeleton at the controls, he sets a story in motion. Two American fighter pilots in the Chinese Air Force, with their English and Burmese girlfriends, and a Japanese suicide pilot whose name happens to mean "tree of the sun"--they clash at Rangoon, while the British empire falls about their ears. Here is a story of the Flying Tigers, immortalized by their exploits in Southeast Asia in the opening months of the Pacific War, as told by a man uniquely qualified to write about those stirring times. Ford's history of the Flying Tigers won the award of excellence from the Aviation-Space Writers Association, while his novel of the Vietnam war inspired the Burt Lancaster film _Go Tell the Spartans_, which the _Cincinnati Enquirer_ called "one of the noblest films, ever, about men in crisis." Here he deftly melds fact and fiction in an unforgettable wartime romance. "You can't beat remains, kid," Lieutenant Atherton says in a beautifully limned conclusion. "They'll tell the story every time."
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