Flyboys : A True Story of Courage

by Bradley, James

• ISBN13: 9780316107280
• ISBN10: 031610728X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-02-01
• Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Summary

James Bradley's acclaimed bestseller brilliantly illuminates a hidden piece of World War II history as it tells the harrowing true story of nine American airmen shot down in the Pacific. One of them, George H. W. Bush, was miraculously rescued. The fate of the others -- a closely guarded sixty-year-old secret -- is revealed for the first time in Flyboys. Book jacket.

Author Biography

James Bradley, author of the #1 bestseller Flags of Our Fathers, is the son of one of the men who raised the American flag on Iwo Jima

Table of Contents

Declassified	p. 3
Civilize-ation	p. 9
Spirit War	p. 29
The Third Dimension	p. 41
The Rape of China	p. 52
The ABCD Encirclement	p. 63
Flyboys	p. 79
Doing the Impossible	p. 98
Airpower	p. 118
Yellow Devils, White Devils	p. 133
To the Pacific	p. 151
Carrier War	p. 168
No Mans Land	p. 181
No Surrender	p. 202
Kichiku	p. 218
Fire War	p. 248
Enduring the Unendurable	p. 278
Casualties of War	p. 306
Afterword to the Paperback Edition	p. 337
Acknowledgments	p. 343
Notes	p. 345
Bibliography	p. 377
Index	p. 385
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