The Flying Tigers, John Toland
The Flying Tigers, John Toland
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The Flying Tigers

Author: John Toland

Narrator: Joe Barrett

Unabridged: 3 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/07/2020

Synopsis

During World War II, a group of American fighter pilots roamed the skies over China and Burma, menacing the Japanese war effort without letup. Flamboyant, daring, and courageous, they were called the Flying Tigers. The Tigers—who had been recruited from the Army, Navy, and Marines—first saw action as a volunteer group fighting on the side of the Chiang Kai-shek’s China against Japan. Trained in the unconventional air-combat tactics of their maverick leader Claire Lee Chennault, they racked up some of the most impressive air victory records of World War II.This is the story of Chennault and his magnificent Tigers—and how they performed the impossible.

About John Toland

John Toland (1912–2004) was an award-winning American author and one of the most widely read military historians of the twentieth century. His most well-known work is perhaps The Rising Sun, winner of the 1971 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction and the first book in English to tell the story of the Pacific War from the Japanese perspective. Although primarily an author of historical nonfiction, he also wrote novels, plays, and short stories. Among his published books were four New York Times bestsellers: But Not in Shame, The Last Hundred Days, Adolf Hitler, and Infamy.

About Joe Barrett

Joe Barrett began his acting career at the age of five in the basement of his family's home in upstate New York. He has gone on to play many stage roles, both on and off-Broadway, and in regional theaters from Los Angeles, Houston, and St. Louis to Washington DC, San Francisco, and Portland, Maine. He has appeared in films and television, both prime time and late night, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. Joe has narrated over two hundred audiobooks. He has been an Audie Award finalist eight times, and his narration of Gun Church by Reed Farrel Coleman won the 2013 Audie Award for Original Work. AudioFile magazine has granted Joe fourteen Earphones Awards, including for James Salter's All That Is and Donald Katz's Home Fires. Regarding Joe's narration of John Irving's A Prayer For Owen Meany, AudioFile said, "This moving book comes across like a concerto . . . with a soloist-Owen's voice-rising from the background of an orchestral narration." Joe is married to actor Andrea Wright, and together they have four very grown children.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dave on January 23, 2013

One of my first reads in Elementary School....led to lifelong fascination with the AVG......more

Goodreads review by Kevin on April 06, 2019

Reads like a Novel. Well researched a great insight into the war in Asia and how a few men and a leader with a vision could achieve so much. As an amateur historian I was wrapped in this story. A must read.......more

Goodreads review by Raymond on August 31, 2021

There is so little written about the Chinese World War II story. Here Americans flew and won victory after victory against the Japanese. Without their involvement, China would have fallen and Japanese looting of raw materials would have been unabated which would have given them the necessary war nee......more

Goodreads review by A.R. on October 03, 2020

My father-in-law served in the Army Air Corps in the China-Burma-India theater and flew “over the hump”, so when I found this old paperback in the house I read it. Although it is non-fiction it read like an action adventure story. Well done. It makes me want to find that old movie about the Flying T......more

Goodreads review by John on December 09, 2022

Short, interesting historical account of the American Volunteer Group (AVG) in China during World War 2. This group was often referred to has "The Flying Tigers" because of the nose art on their P-40 fighters. Some exciting short excerpts of encounters with the Japanese and the characters involved. So......more

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