'War history as it should be written!' -- The Hook

Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and
His American Volunteers, 1941-1942

"During the dark, early days of World War II, when the Imperial Japanese army, navy, and air force were running roughshod over Asia and the Pacific, it seemed that nothing could stop them. Only a small band of American mercenary fliers based in Burma and known as the Flying Tigers, led by a leather-faced fighter named Claire Chennault, seemed able to challenge and defeat the Japanese....

"The exciting story of this legendary fighting force that wore American uniforms but Chinese insignia is told in Daniel Ford's definitive history of the legendary Flying Tigers. Every page contains a new tidbit of information and rich, long-forgotten detail. -- World War II magazine, November 2007

• Read the preface
• Read Chapter 3: 'Too Good To Be True'
• Bibliography and chapter notes
• Additions and corrections
• See the cover up close
• Order of Battle tables for the Burma campaign
• What the reviewers are saying
• About the author
• Chris Shores on the subject of AVG victory claims

Author events coming up

I'll be in Fergus Falls, Minnesota, for the town's Big Read on April 21-22. (The Fergus Falls airport is named for Einar "Micky" Mickelson, a former AVG pilot who was killed while flying a transport plane across the Hump between India and China.) Also in April, I'm doing an interview with Beth Kidd of WLTE-FM in Minneapolis. I don't know when it will be aired, but here's a Podcast of an earlier interview: "Les in the Morning," WEOL-AM Cleveland.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford