Review: Wings Of A Flying Tiger: A Haunting, Heartbreaking Novel Set In WWII China
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- June 26, 2020
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ABOUT THE BOOK World War Two. Japanese occupied China. One cousin’s courage, another’s determination to help a wounded American pilot. In the summer of 1942, Danny Hardy bails out of his fighter plane into a remote region of western China. With multiple injuries, malaria, and Japanese troops searching for him, the American pilot’s odds of
READ MOREIris Yang presented an intriguing saga with her second installment of the illustrious Flying Tigers. As the scenes unfolded, the main characters became so well-honed, they no longer seemed fictional. Drenched from all the misery and pain, the author paid special tribute to the carnage and countless, shattered hearts that came to endure the worst
READ MORESworn brothers—one American, one Chinese—captured, imprisoned, tortured. Survival is just the beginning of the battle… From Chungking to Yunnan, and from Taiwan to San Francisco, the sequel to Wings of a Flying Tiger takes readers along on an epic journey. Iris Yang sits down with Book Glow to talk about Will of a Tiger. Did
READ MOREIn the dark days after the Nanjing Massacre, as the Second Sino-Japanese War is turning into World War II, an American pilot crashes into the Chinese countryside. Daisy, her cousin Jasmine and her older brother Birch, have to save the injured pilot, Danny, while trying to protect their homeland in Wings of a Flying Tiger.
READ MORESoldiers fighting together on the same side develop relationships unlike any other. These fiction and nonfiction selections feature brothers in arms during World War II. SPONSORED BY Down a Dark Road by H. W. “Buzz” Bernard A heart-wrenching historical fiction novel based on a true story set in the forests of western Austria at the
READ MOREMost Americans know about the US involvement to assist the allied powers in Europe during World War II, but do they know about the American pilots, otherwise known as the AVG (Flying Tigers), who aided China during the same conflict? These fiction and nonfiction selections document the US-China alliance during WWII. 1. When Tigers Ruled
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