China's Wings

Gregory Crouch is an author who specializes in adventurous and historic subjects. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, where he studied military history. He completed U.S. Army Airborne and Ranger Schools, and led his infantry platoon in combat in Panama, where he earned the Combat Infantryman's Badge. Crouch left the Army in the post-Gulf War downsizing in order to pursue his passions for rock, ice, and alpine climbing, and he developed a particular fascination with the majestic peaks of Patagonia. Along the way he became a writer. His work has appeared in National Geographic ("Stone Cold Ascent," March of 2000, and "The Caves of Oman," April of 2003), National Geographic Adventure, American History, Outside, Climbing (where he has been a senior contributing editor), and many others. Crouch's book, Enduring Patagonia (Random House, 2001) was selected for the Barnes & Noble "Discover Great New Writers" program. His most recent book is the previously untold World War II flying adventure China's Wings: War, Intrigue, Romance, and Adventure in the Middle Kingdom During the Golden Age of Flight (Bantam, 2012). He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.

出版者:Bantam

作者:Gregory Crouch

页数:528

出版时间:2012-2-28

价格:GBP 24.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780553804270

图书标签:近代史马歇尔蒋介石罗斯福空军史迪威历史CNAC

At the center of the maelstrom is the book’s courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation’s flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC). The mission will take him to the wild and lawless frontiers of commercial aviation: into cockpits with daredevil pilots flying—sometimes literally—on a wing and a prayer; into the dangerous maze of Chinese politics, where scheming warlords and volatile military officers jockey for advantage; and into the boardrooms, backrooms, and corridors of power inhabited by such outsized figures as Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-shek; President Franklin Delano Roosevelt; foreign minister T. V. Soong; Generals Arnold, Stilwell, and Marshall; and legendary Pan American Airways founder Juan Trippe.

With the outbreak of full-scale war in 1941, Bond and CNAC are transformed from uneasy spectators to active participants in the struggle against Axis imperialism. Drawing on meticulous research, primary sources, and extensive personal interviews with participants, Gregory Crouch offers harrowing accounts of brutal bombing runs and heroic evacuations, as the fight to keep one airline flying becomes part of the larger struggle for China’s survival. He plunges us into a world of perilous night flights, emergency water landings, and the constant threat of predatory Japanese warplanes. When Japanese forces capture Burma and blockade China’s only overland supply route, Bond and his pilots must battle shortages of airplanes, personnel, and spare parts to airlift supplies over an untried five-hundred-mile-long aerial gauntlet high above the Himalayas—the infamous “Hump”—pioneering one of the most celebrated endeavors in aviation history.

A hero’s-eye view of history in the grand tradition of Lynne Olson’s Citizens of London, China’s Wings takes readers on a mesmerizing journey to a time and place that reshaped the modern world.

读后感

中国之强必将体现在中国制空权的强大，我国是的航空史是如何发展的呢，本书就描写了一段未被透露空编年史，描述了一个个二战时期，亚洲战场航空冒险的故事，激动人心的真实的“空中兄弟连”的冒险事迹。是航空史学爱好者不可多得的资料。

中国之强必将体现在中国制空权的强大，我国是的航空史是如何发展的呢，本书就描写了一段未被透露空编年史，描述了一个个二战时期，亚洲战场航空冒险的故事，激动人心的真实的“空中兄弟连”的冒险事迹。是航空史学爱好者不可多得的资料。

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用户评价

最大的感受是美帝空军强大的基础来自民间（倘若战争爆发，数以万计乃至十数万的民间飞行员稍加培训即可奔赴战场），而不是寥寥无几的“天才飞行员”

最大的感受是美帝空军强大的基础来自民间（倘若战争爆发，数以万计乃至十数万的民间飞行员稍加培训即可奔赴战场），而不是寥寥无几的“天才飞行员”

最大的感受是美帝空军强大的基础来自民间（倘若战争爆发，数以万计乃至十数万的民间飞行员稍加培训即可奔赴战场），而不是寥寥无几的“天才飞行员”

最大的感受是美帝空军强大的基础来自民间（倘若战争爆发，数以万计乃至十数万的民间飞行员稍加培训即可奔赴战场），而不是寥寥无几的“天才飞行员”

最大的感受是美帝空军强大的基础来自民间（倘若战争爆发，数以万计乃至十数万的民间飞行员稍加培训即可奔赴战场），而不是寥寥无几的“天才飞行员”