Tales of the Flying Tigers: Five Books about the American Volunteer Group, Mercenary Heroes of Burma and China

"What God abandoned, these defended / And saved the sum of things for pay" - In the bleak winter of 1941-1942, no American or British force could stem the tide in Southeast Asia, as the Philippines, Thailand, Malaya, and Singapore fell to the victorious Japanese. Only in Burma was there a ray of hope. There, over beleaguered Rangoon, a few dozen Americans clawed Japanese warplanes from the sky for a cash bounty from the Chinese government. Wearing mismatched uniforms, with Chinese insignia,...