{"product_id":"flying-tigers-claire-chennault-and-his-american-volunteers-1941-1942-9780692734735","title":"Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942","description":"In the skies over Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the \"Imperial Wild Eagles\" of Japan and became immortal as the Flying Tigers. They were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month plus $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down-fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night. \"\u003cb\u003eAdmirable\u003c\/b\u003e,\" wrote Chennault biographer Martha Byrd. \"\u003cb\u003eA readable book based on sound sources\u003c\/b\u003e.\" \u003ci\u003eFlying Tigers\u003c\/i\u003e won the Aviation\/Space Writers Association Award of Excellence when it was first published by the Smithsonian Institution. This new edition was revised and updated in May 2023.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaniel Ford has spent a lifetime studying and writing about the wars of the past hundred years, from Ireland's war of liberation to America's invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. He received a Stern Fund award for his dispatches from South Vietnam in 1964, a Verville Fellowship at the National Air \u0026amp; Space Museum in 1988, and the Aviation\/Space Writers Award of Excellence in 1991.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Warbird Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50327425515794,"sku":"9780692734735","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_95c23359-74f4-4451-b2a5-4c41b663a6c4.jpg?v=1727714788","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/flying-tigers-claire-chennault-and-his-american-volunteers-1941-1942-9780692734735","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}