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Losing a pregnancy or newborn is a grievous experience. Today the perinatal death rate in the U.S.--which refers to fetuses 20 weeks old through babies 4 weeks old--is about 14 per 1,000 births. Many more children die earlier in pregnancy and later in childhood. In Parenthood Lost, Dr. Michael Berman shares his insights from his experiences helping parents deal with their grief and unravels the confusing genetic and medical causes of miscarriage, stillbirth, and infant death. Through original poetry, firsthand stories told by parents, and articles describing genetic and medical disorders, Parenthood Lost offers clarification and hope for parents who have suffered this tragedy. Dr. Berman includes a section on the most common reasons for perinatal losses, with detailed medical information written by practicing obstetricians, and a helpful glossary of terms.
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a tremendous help.......2001-08-24
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A definitive biography of the legendary leader of the Flying Tigers and the U.S. Fourteenth Air Force in China.
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Here's the story of how a handful of young Americans, fighting with improvised equipment, commanded the air against superior enemy forces and won! Written by a radio operator who served as a member of the AVG (American Volunteer Group) throughout their existence, this fascinating, intimate story of General Claire Lee Chennault's "Flying Tigers" is loaded with original photographs and numerous first-hand accounts from the author's personal diary. It's all here - the whole story of how the AVG shot down over 650 Japanese plane using obsolete P-40s and a communications network that covered China with a protective "umbrella." This ground based radio network (in which the author operated) kept the pilots so well-informed of enemy air activity that they were seldom surprised by Japanese attacks. Enjoyable to read, this memoir will give you a taste of the "local flavor" of life in China while under Japanese attack. You'll find a musing anecdotes and accurate descriptions of the author's duty as a radio operator as well as the wartime activities of other AVG member. Now, the complete story of the AVG - the deadliest, most efficient group of fighter pilots and support personnel ever assembled - is brought to life again through original photographs and behind the scenes descriptions! Robert M. Smith was a sergeant-air mechanic first class for the U.S. Air Force when the recruiters arrived on base looking for volunteers for the Chinese Air Force. He was discharged from the Air Force and went to China to join the American Volunteer Group, "THe Flying Tigers." When the AVG disbanded in July, 1942 he re-enlisted as a technical sergeant and retured to China with the Army Airways Communications System. Presently he is the treasurer and on the executive committee of the American Volunteer Group Association., over 110 b/w photographs, 6" x 9"
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Flying Tigers as seen by Radioman Smith.......1999-02-20
This is a somewhat edited version of Robert M. Smith's diary that he kept during his year with the American Volunteer Group (Flying Tigers). Smith attended college before joining the Army, rather unusual for the time. He joined the AVG for adventure, like most of the pilots and technicians. And he kept a diary, as many of them did.
Smith's diary is especially insightful, and I used it a lot when I was writing my history of the Flying Tigers. He has a good eye for geography; I especially liked his account of driving up the Burma Road to the AVG's home base in Kunming.
I own the paperback; it was chock-a-block with photos, which I assume are included in the Schiffer edition. Good reading for all Flying Tigers buffs.
The story of how radio revolutionized aerial warfare........1998-06-10
Robert Smith gives you the lowdown from the air field on what it took to get the Flying Tigers in the air and to the Japanese bombers before they could strike their Chinese targets. Here is the truly brilliant saga of how Chennault's revolutionary combination of ground observation, central data gathering and fighter scramble turned aerial warfare from hunt and peck to dispatch and destroy.
We take these technologies for granted now, but when Chennault first proposed them he was laughed at by the fledgling air forces that stumbled along between the two world wars with no vision. Chennault had the vision of what modern air warfare would become. He proved it with the Flying Tigers by taking an under-manned, under-equipped, and under-funded unit and making it into the bane of the enemy.
Robert Smith puts you there in the radio room, nursing the equipment, listening through static, sifting the reports and making the critical decisions to scramble the planes. The pilots got the glory. Smith told them where the glory was to be gotten.
This is a little known page in the history of aerial warfare that is told clearly, up front and personal, by a man who was right there in the thick of it.
I heartily recommend With Chennault in China to anyone interested in The Flying Tigers and/or air combat history.
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During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and in turn won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month and a bounty of $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down—fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night.
To bring his prize-winning history of the American Volunteer Group up to date, Daniel Ford has completely rewritten his 1991 text, drawing on the most recent U.S., British, and Japanese scholarship. New material from AVG veterans—including Erik Shilling and Tex Hill—help fill out the story, along with newfound recollections from Japanese and New Zealand airmen. Ford also takes up the rumors that Royal Air Force pilots "sold" combat victories to the Flying Tigers in order to share in the bounties paid by the Chinese government.
"Admirable," wrote Chennault biographer Martha Byrd of Ford's original text. "A readable book based on sound sources. Expect some surprises." Even more could that be said of this new and more complete edition.
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Caveat Mentor. Misleading readers: "FICTION" not history!.......2007-10-09
Caveat Mentor. Misleading readers into believing a book is historically factual when it is not is stuff of another genre ... fiction! As such, this book should not be recommended to anyone interested in the history of the Flying Tigers. I guess this will brand me part of the official Flying Tiger conspiracy to discredit the author. Well, be it as it may. The author continued insinuation that the Flying tigers claim more than official records comes across again as premeditatedly mean spirited (reads as a personal attack on all Flying Tiger personnel). Sure there must have been cases where swagger and story telling influenced by libation might have been exaggerated but is not anything coming from official Flying Tiger's nor official combat claims. Heck, I could also claim to have downed 1000 aircraft in combat. It would be idiocy to take that as a realistic claim and, worse, to actually write about to prove a controversial point. I though that if you write a book on historical facts, it must be based an official claims and not on swagger. Unfortunately the author has missed second, even third and fourth chances to redeem himself, especially in this latest edition. The book continues to read as an updated version of a previously conjured controversy for sole purposes of selling more books. Claiming to be the authoritative `historian' of the Flying Tigers, which comes across as nefarious in nature, does not validate one-sided opinions. The author plays a sly game of reference that reads as a personal account of events or from intimate interviews with Flying Tiger personnel. In reality the book is not based on the author's personal experience nor does it give a good balance between the two sides of the conflict. A few anecdotal references to Flying Tigers and a whole lot of Japanese "trivia" does not provide balance. The book is disappointing since it continues to insinuate that `all' Flying Tiger personnel were "liars" and "cheats". Unfortunately in this edition, as well as the previous one, the author plays up the "supposed" inflated combat claim to the max. The author uses the claim in absolute terms (highest number he could find) to fuel the contrversy as opposed to verifiable combat claims (in the 200 to 250 range, which is closest to what the Flying Tigers claim).The book quotes anecdotal conversations here and there but brings little substance to proper context or balance (you know, what true `historians' are supposed to do). The author should be reminded that regardless of how many print editions have been edited or sold-out, they do not validate "revisionist history" nor do they validate the rest of the book's inconsistencies.
As mentioned, this book would be well placed under another genre ... "Fiction".
The truth about a legend.......2007-09-26
The American Volunteer Group (AVG), aka The Flying Tigers, are legendary. What young boy growing up in the 1940s and 50s has not been enthralled with John Wayne and the movie, Flying Tigers ? Great stuff. Most Americans believe the AVG was fighting the Japanese months, if not years, before Pearl Harbor. The truth is a little more prosaic. They flew their first combat mission 3 days after Pearl Harbor and made their first claim only on Dec 20th, 1941.
Daniel Ford originally published this book in the early 1990s. He did this with official records of the group from US archival sources as well as Japanese historians who worked for years on official Japanese records and first person AVG and Japanese stories to flesh out these records.
Ford was attacked, endlessly, by "keepers of the legend" as well as former AVG members still alive. The reason is he lent a truth and perspective. The AVG is officially credited with over 290 Japanese aircraft shot down over Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and China. Official Japanese records credit them with about ½ that amount. Over the years, the stories and accomplishments grew. The AVG claimed they could only be credited with half the amount they actually shot down because so many were behind Japanese lines. So they claimed at least 600, then it has grown to close to 1,000. The AVG people claim that official Japanese records are lies, perpetuated to this day.
It is a shame this goes on. Their record, even with less kills, is one to be proud of. The AVG fought courageously with an aircraft inferior in some ways to Japanese machines, in appalling living conditions with an ally, Chang-Kai-shek, who did not really care about the war, per se, but only holding his power and position against the Chinese communists in the show-down to come. The AVG's record deserves to be a legend, but not quite the John Wayne type.
Ford laid all this out in his first edition in a very readable of historical book. This second edition corrects some errors, adds information and comments on his on-going controversy with the keepers of the AVG legend. If this interests you at all, buy this book, admire their accomplishments and admire Dan Ford for his ground-breaking work.
Even Better.......2007-08-28
As a professional author, I can attest that few of us get to rewrite a book, making use of "new" material. (There seems a law of the universe that as soon as a book hits the street, that hard-to-find bit of info finally turns up!) Fortunately for the cause of aviation history, Dan Ford is one of "the few."
Ford's definitive history of the AVG caused a sensation when first published, mainly because he dared challenge the conventional wisdom, not to mention the mythology attending the Flying Tigers. With passage of enough time, the worth of his initial effort became even more apparent, and even some of his critics within the AVG began acknowledging that he got far more right than wrong.
Apart from new material, the second edition retains the strengths of the first: honest scholarship and good writing. Ford clearly admires his subjects, but succeedds in telling the human side of the legendary airmen and the ground staff that "kept 'em flying." Claire Chennault's faults and foibles lend credence to the overall worth of this fine effort, which is unlikely ever to be surpassed.
a dream fulfilled, and a better book.......2007-08-21
I've been longing to rewrite my history of the American Volunteer Group ever since it was first published by Smithsonian Institution Press in 1991. But the book sold too briskly, going through seven printings over the next ten years. Then an odd bit of luck: the Press went out of business in 2005, and "Flying Tigers" sold out its last remaining copies. The downside is that the book has been out of print for the past two years. But ah, the upside! I got to rewrite it!
It's astonishing how much new material has been published in the past sixteen years about the AVG. I've included the best of this material, corrected some errors of fact and judgment, and generally shortened and brightened the text. That's every author's dream, to take a good book and make it better.
I give it five stars. How could I not? I wrote it, after all!
Blue skies! -- Dan Ford
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A book about flying tigers that the real flying tigers disagree.......2006-09-17
This is a book of contradiction and conflict. The real flying tigers disagree and dislike this book, for example, Erik Shilling who was one key person of AVG to make the famous shark teeth on the P40 the AVG symbol.
Mr. Ford did extensive research under a Smithsonian fellowship. The book covers the information about AVG, and the author attempted to "balance" by adopting much info from Japanese sources as well. In addition, there is the introduction of the airplane performance for readers who are not familiar with world war II airplanes.
So why so many AVGs disagree and dislike the book, although many of the AVGs provided information and assisted with the book writing? This reviewer believes:
1. the author describes the AVG as mercenaries or adventurers, but not patriots. AVG was recruited under President Roosvelt's secret executive order. I wonder what the author's view on the Eagle squadron in England is? (England paid the Eagle squadron a salary higher than China to AVG) Some of the AVG pilots volunteered for 2 more weeks after the disbandment on July 4th, 1942, and was KIA in that 2 weeks. This disrepect to AVG is definitely unwarranted and misleading to readers who want to learn about AVG.
2. The author tore down AVG's score by comparing with the Japanese source, and in numerous places within the book to claim that AVG greatly exaggerated the score. True in the 2nd world war that fighter pilots from all countries over-estimated their kills. It is not difficult to find that AVG over claimed the kill. But thinking that Japanese record is accurate is the major flaw in the author's approach. Near the end of the book, Mr. Ford finally admitted that Japanese pilots could exaggerate their kill score even worse and he used much information from Japanese pilots' memoir written in the 1980s because much official documents was destroyed near the end of the war in Japan! Another point, the author does not understand the importance of "face" in Asian culture. The Japanese military isolated all the Midway task force after defeat and concealed the news to the Japanese people!! How should the accuracy of those Japanese late-day memoirs be checked?
3. The book also missed addressing the key point: right after the Pearl Harbor, AVG was the only winning (or maybe not-defeated by Mr. Ford's approach?) allied air group. The book failed to portray in the right proportion that AVG, in the shortage of the supply and spare parts, faced a Japanese army air force of at least 2x to 5x size. The failure of JAAF to annihilate AVG is the best testimony that AVG defeated JAAF! In the even grander historic scope, AVG freed the China from the JAAF bombardment and stopped the barbecuing of the major Chinese cities (and its citizens).
The author's lack of history training, general knowlege of air-warfare and airplane flaws the book as an objective historic account. It makes readers wonder whether the book is written by a Japanese author. It certainly failed to recognize the historic contribution by General Chennault and the AVG in stopping Japanese aggression - which even US military finally recogizes half century after the end of the 2nd world war.
The reviewer recommends other books on Amazon to readers of strong interest in AVG which have much better value in collection, such as
1. Tale of a tiger by RT Smith
2. A flying tiger's diary by Charles Bond
among many other books.
the official AVG website
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provide much more information including the list of books to the interested readers.
Flying Tigers.......2006-07-28
One of the best and most objective accounts of the AVG in China and the politics that helped draw the US into the second world war. A 'must read' for anyone interested in the history and politics of that period, not to mention those interested in vintage wartime aviation. Best if read with Greenlaw's "The Lady and the Tigers" and Boyington's "Baa Baa Black Sheep".
A POLITICALLY CORRECT REVISIONIST HISTORY.......2005-11-12
This is a book I believe to be a revisionist history of the AVG (American Volunteer Group) also known by the more colorful sobriquet of "The Flying Tigers". The name had a very positive effect on the Chinese and so upset the Japanese that they would not even print the name in their reports or newspapers as it was "too terrible". I believe the book to be a good one except for the effort to reduce the victories attained by the AVG. Mr. Ford is correct in that the AVG did not fight the Zero. The Zero was withdrawn from China in Sept. of 1940. They did, however, fight the Ki-43 which was very similar in appearance and performance.
Mr. Ford's narrative takes the reader from the very beginning when pilots and support personnel were recruited from the Army and the Navy to the very bitter end when the exhausted and much put upon surviving members of the AVG were very shabbily treated, particularly by USAAF General Clayton Bissel, and summarily disbanded without fanfare or thanks by their government. The Chinese, however, were extremely grateful and showed it in many ways.
The writer touches on the complex relationships between Chennault, Chaing Kai-Skek and his vivacious and charming American educated wife the former Mai-Ling Soong who was known as Madame Chaing Kai-Shek. Other players such as the universally loathed Clayton Bissell (whom Chenault hated) and General Joseph Stilwell (who hated anything that did not walk,i.e., fliers). The politics here are are truly Machivalian and would require another book to do them justice ( read "The Soong Dynasty" by Sterling Seagrave). Claire Lee Chennault was a great aviator and a master tactician who had little use for the conventional military. He had been in China since 1937 and was intensely loyal to Generalissimo and Madame Chiang Kai-Chek.
The book chronicles the recruiting and deployment of the air group to China via Burma with great and sometimes tedious detail. The AVG arrived as a complete unit with planes, spare parts, technical, medical and adminstrative staff. They are described as mercenaries by Mr. Ford. t I know of no mercenaries who were so completely equipped and paid for by their own (US) government. This is in marked contrast to US pilots such as Ajax Baumler and Frank Tinker who flew in the Spanish Civil War but did so completely on their own.
Chennault arranged for the unit to train intensely at Toungoo north of Rangoon and it was this training that was at the root of this units great effectiveness.
The book reveals much of the diverse and interesting personalities who found themselves together at the end of a long road. Pilots such as fighter ace R. T. Smith ( a man who definitely did not like this book), Tex Hill, Bob Little, Gregory Boyington, staff members Harvey and Olga Greenlaw and many other fascinating characters are described in this book. One thing that Mr. Ford did do that I liked was give some words to the five remarkable women who were also members of the Flying Tigers.
The first fatal accidents begin almost immediately and the combat losses begin with the very spirited defense of Rangoon, a battle ultimately lost. The book purports to to detail every combat for the entire life of the AVG and makes use of Japanese records and interviews with Japanese survivors. Mr. Ford's research reduces the number of victories claimed by the AVG and in so doing has enraged surviving members of the Flying Tigers. I am in complete disagreement with Mr. Ford here and feel that if anything the victory tally should have been even higher. My own tendency is also to believe those who were there over those who were not. As Mr. Ford was not there and was never a combat pilot so I leave it to the reader to draw their own conclusions. Also I have read every book ever written about the AVG and cannot help but give credence to the fact that none are in agreement with Mr. Ford's book in respect to the combat record of the group.
Read this and judge for yourself. This book belongs on the shelf of any Flying Tiger student, if, for nothing else, its contrasting views.
Gen.Chennault and the AVG by Daniel Ford.......2005-09-24
An excellent book based on fact about Gen. Chennault and the men and WOMAN that made up the Flying Tigers. Very enjoyable reading and I could hardly put it down.
The truth behind the myth .......2005-05-01
Daniel Ford took on a difficult job: cutting through the hype to offer an objective assessment of the Flying Tigers' actual combat performance during their brief existence from late 1941 through mid-1942. Ford carries out this task with pain-staking rigor, sorting through U.S. and Japanese flight reports and other pieces of evidence. His conclusion: The Tigers, mercenary U.S. airmen hired to defend China from Japan, didn't come close to the exploits attributed to them - but did put on an impressive performance against the Japanese air force that vastly outnumbered them, destroying about 115 Japanese planes (not the 296 they were credited). Ford writes well and displays a sense of humor about the absurdities of war and human behavior -- and an empathy for young men fighting in difficult circumstances. But Flying Tigers doesn't rise to greatness because the characters never really come to life. Ford offers such a wide-ranging, chronological account that characters can disappear for 100 pages; when they return, you barely remember them. Not even the Tigers' leader, Claire Chennault, emerges as a full-blooded character. Even so, the Chennault described here is far different from hare-brained opportunist depicted in Barbara Tuchman's magisterial Stilwell and the American Experience in China. In this account, Chennault is an innovative advocate of air power, beloved by his men and constantly forced to defend them from bureaucratic assaults. I'm not sure whether Ford or Tuchman got closer to the truth. But reading this book, at a time when partisanship and hype so often substitute for digging and analysis, you have to admire Ford's effort. You sense you are in the company of a good man, searching for truth even if it means taking a little of the glow off the myth surrounding men he obviously admires.
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Decent "digest" of Chennault/Stilwell conflict.......2007-08-05
Like most of the other Ballantine books in this series (published in the early 1970s), Heiferman's account of Claire Chennault in China is based on secondary sources and is heavily illustrated. It's also rather dry and will hardly satisfy readers looking for narratives with lots of combat action.
This is primarily a command history and rather outdated. A great deal of research on Chennault and the American Volunteer Group (the "Flying Tigers") has been accomplished since the '70s, and historians like Martha Byrd and Daniel Ford have written books that supersede much of the information contained in Heiferman, to the point that this is only a rudimentary account of the American Volunteer Group in 1941-42.
It is, however, a "quick-and-dirty" overview on other aspects of the war in China. Chennault's career in World War II was really two careers. As an employee of the Chinese government from 1937 to 1942, he supervised efforts to build a Chinese air force that culminated in the formation of the American Volunteer Group in 1941. For about six months in 1941-42, the AVG did a distinguished (if sometimes exaggerated) job in combatting the Japanese Army Air Force in Burma and southern China. Chennault's career entered a new phase in July 1942 when the AVG was disbanded and Chennault, now wearing the star of a brigadier general in the U.S. Army Air Forces, took command of the U.S China Air Task Force (later designated as the 14th Army Air Force). From that point, the storyline is not only of air operations against the Japanese but of the intense strategic and political disagreements between Chennault and his Army superiors, most notably Gen. Joseph Stilwell, over how to prosecute the war on the Asian mainland.
The Chennault/Stilwell conflict has been covered in a number of books, most notably by Barbara Tuchman (who is somewhat pro-Stilwell). However, Heiferman provides a decent overview of that conflict (based in part on Tuchman's work and on the official U.S. Army history of the China-Burma-India theater by Romanus and Sunderland), which effectively ended the military careers of both men and, more importantly, had profound consequences for U.S. relations with China after World War II. If you don't want to take the time to read the longer books, Heiferman gives you an adequate summary of the story.
Beyond that, I can't recommend this book. If you're interested in Chennault, the man and the leader, you're better off investing your money and time in reading Byrd or Ford. If you're strongly interested in the Chennault/Stilwell conflict, read Tuchman too.
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- this book is a must-read for chennault fans!
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Flying Tiger: Chennault of China
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this book is a must-read for chennault fans!.......1998-07-23
This book was written at the tail end of B/gen scotts career as commander of Luke Air Force Base in arizona. Knowing what we know now about Gen Chennault and his men and their collective discontent for authority, specifically the likes of clayton bissell and joseph stilwell, i can only assume that "Scotty" held back somewhat in this writing. Maybe back in the 50s you were supposed to be reserved. However, this is an excellent story of one of the rennaisance men of aviation, a man who single handedly changed the way we fight in the air. Chennault was handcuffed almost from the start, being labeled as a maverick and cast aside much too early in a career that would eventually transform itself into the world of civilian air transportation with the flying tiger line.
There have been many books on chennault, but this one is one from one of the "regulars" who won over not only chennault but his band of merrymen known as the AVG, or the REAL flying tigers.! It is definitely one that i recommend to any fan of Gen chennault or Robert L. Scott.
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