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Posted May 27, 2002
Anyone who's read about the Flying Tigers has wondered about Olga Greenlaw, who was the great-looking wife of Chenault's executive officer. Now Dan Ford has edited this rare book ...which is cause for celebration, but what's even better is that he has tracked down Olga and Harvey Greenlaw. I've read the original, of course, and I've read Dan's introductory chapter on his website, and also seen some of the photographs. (Was Olga a 'White Russian?' No. Did she have a love affair with Pappy Boyington? Probably not. Was she as gorgeous as she looks? You bet!) I can't wait to get my copy of the paperback and read the last chapter and find out what became of Harvey and especially Olga. -- Matthew
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Posted June 1, 2002
At long last someone has reprinted Olga Greenlaw's account of the world famous American Volunteer Group-Flying Tigers. I'd venture to say that anyone who's read anything on the Tigers has wanted to read this book. Now we all can avoid the search and high cost for an original edition since this reprint/new edition with more information added is available. A great book on the legendary group done like no other on subject of the AVG-Flying Tigers. A very inside point of view from Olga Greenlaw, the only female (a timeless beauty I might add)of the group that defended Rangoon, the Burma Road and China in the very dark, early days of WWII to write a book on it all. This book gets into details and personalities that most of the other books on the Tigers only touch upon. The author herself is a mystery in most of the other books on the AVG but she's fully revealed in this one. The one photo of her on the waterfront, slit skirt and all may be worth the cover price alone. No fan of the Flying Tigers should be without this book.
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Posted May 20, 2002
I don't think I ever enjoyed creating a book as much as this one. Olga Greenlaw wrote it in 1943 and promptly vanished from sight. Whatever happened to her? I was able to find out, and to garner some great photos from her earlier life in Mexico and China. So here's her book again, edited from the perspective of 60 years, and with a foreword and afterword to explain where the Greenlaws came from and what happened to them after their tumultuous year with the AVG.
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Overview
Olga Greenlaw kept the War Diary of the American Volunteer Group--the Flying Tigers--while those gallant mercenaries defended Burma and China from Japanese aggression during the opening months of the Pacific War. Returning to the United States in 1942, she wrote "The Lady and the Tigers", which war correspondent Leland Stowe hailed as "an authoritative, gutsy and true to life story of the AVG." Out of print for more than half a century, her book has now been brought up to date by Daniel Ford, author of "Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group". What's more, Ford explains for the first time where Olga and Harvey Greenlaw came from, how they became caught up in the saga of the Flying Tigers, and ...