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China's wings : war, intrigue, romance, and adventure in the Middle Kingdom during the Golden Age of Flight /

"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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Crouch, Gregory, 1966-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Bantam Books, [2012]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
China National Aviation Corporation.
Airlines > China.
Table of 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.