I FLEW FOR CHINA: Chiang Kai~Shek's Personal Pilot

Leonard, Royal

Verlag: Garden City NY. 1942. Doubleday Doran

Beschreibung

tan & red decorative cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. near fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. red topstained top edge has a few smudges & spots. contents free of markings. price clipped dustwrapper in fair cond. missing large piece of spine at top, small piece at bottom, soiled on the rear. nice vintage copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. first edition so stated. first printing (NAP). deckled foredge. endpaper maps. xx+295p. biography.autobiography. memoirs. military history. history of china. sino~japanese war. imperial japan. flying tigers ~ ROYAL LEONARD, who has the distinction of being the youngest senior pilot in the history of American commercial aviation, writes a vigorous and colorful account of his six intense, exciting years flying for the Republic of China and of his experience as personal pilot for Generalissimo Chiang Kai~shek. No one can tell the complete story of China's fight for freedom and of her long and heroic resistance against a brutal and aggressive invader, but Captain Leonard's story is replete with all the candid detail possible only to a man who was the only white man to know the location of every landing field, public, private, and military, in the Republic of China. In addition to the close personal contact with the Generalissimo which his job entailed, Captain Leonard was an intimate friend of General Claire Chennault whose American Volunteer Group has provided such a magnificent saga of modern aerial combat. Because of this friendship, the author is able to give us an inside report of the outstanding achievements of this gallant and most incredible fighting force. To Royal Leonard, the plains, gullies and mountains of China are as familiar as the palm of his hand and he is able to present to us a comprehensive view of the military history of these last crucial years which have seen the birth of New China and which have given us a powerful ally in the Far East whose indomitable courage and dogged resistance will help to make it possible for us to establish the four freedoms in Asia. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9141902

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Titel: I FLEW FOR CHINA: Chiang Kai~Shek's Personal...

Verlag: Garden City NY. 1942. Doubleday Doran

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

Auflage: 1. Auflage