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Digital editions from Daniel Ford
I've adapted all my books and many shorter pieces to digital format, notably for Amazon's Kindle reader. You can also read Kindle editions on your phone, tablet, or computer by downloading a Kindle app.) Most are also available through Barnes&Noble, Apple iBookstore, Google Play, Kobo, and other bookstores and subscription services. If you prefer a print edition, just click here.
Looking Back from Ninety
A remarkable story of growing up poor during the Great Depression and the Second World War, and the golden years that followed. (illustrated, 291 pages). [Read more here]
Cowboy
Philip was handsome, flamboyant, courageous, clever, and cruel, and he came to a bad end. (illustrated, 153 pages). [Read more here]
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Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers
The definitive history, updated and revised in this handsome Third Edition — "War history as it should be written!" (The Hook) (illustrated, 340 pages). [Read more here]
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Tales of the Flying
Tigers
Think of it as the universal appendix to every history of the American Volunteer Group, the mercenary heroes of Burma and China (illustrated, 220 pages). [Read more here]
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How the author met Basia, hitchhiked to Italy, and learned about love, war, and exile (illustrated, 238 pages). "An extraordinary book ... highly original, gripping, at once full of joy and of sorrow." [Read more here]
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The Only War We've Got
The Vietnam War before it all went wrong: a reporter's journal from 1964 (illustrated, 170 pages). "A riveting account of the Vietnam War in its opening round" [Read more here]
A hiker's Journal, one hundred miles along the trail in the White
Mountains of New Hampshire (174 pages). "Lively, entertaining
— an excellent piece of work."
[Read more here]
John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror — how would
our greatest military thinker have conducted it? (illustrated, 74 pages). "A brilliant distillation"
[Read more here]
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A new edition of Olga Greenlaw's memoir of her year with the legendary
Flying Tigers (illustrated, 188 pages).
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Fifty combat missions in North Africa and Italy, and first flights
in the Northrop Flying Wing that would kill him (illustrated, 211 pages).
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Star-crossed lovers during the Irish rebellion and civil war, 1916-1923
(208 pages). "A page-turner, an exciting adventure yarn —
and a warm-hearted love story"
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Fitz, Blackie, their British and Anglo-Burman girlfriends, and a Japanese
suicide pilot — they meet at Rangoon in 1942 (228 pages). "A cracking good yarn"
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The black-humor novel that inspired the classic Burt Lancaster film,
Go Tell the Spartans (186 pages)
"Sad, bawdy, and compelling". [Read more here]
The Country Northward
A Vision So Noble
Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot
Michael's War: A Story of the Irish
Republican Army
Remains: A Story of the Flying Tigers
Incident at Muc Wa: A Story of the Vietnam War
The High Country
Illuminator: The Ski Bums of Avalon
A spindrift novel of ski-bums and a malevolent Corporation in a town very
like Aspen (170 pages). "The
writing is adept, the plot bewildering, the pace dizzy, and the skiing scenes
are out of sight" [Read more here]
Now Comes Theodora: A Story of the 1960s
The author's debut novel, forecasting the student rebellion that
flowered at Woodstock and led to the first March on Washington.
"A richly colorful novel," said the New York Times (246 pages).
[Read more here]
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Taildragger TalesA collection of five essays and articles about the joys of flying a tube-and-fabric aircraft from the 1930s that was delivered to its first customer in August 1946 (illustated, about 11,000 words).
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The Sorry Saga of the Brewster Buffalo
The worst fighter of the Second War? An updated and much expanded version of the Air & Space article (illustrated, about 10,000 words). [Read more here]
The Last Raid
How World War II Ended, August 1945: a "thousand-plane raid" was the last act in a war that began eight years earlier, based on the Air & Space article (illustrated, about 7,000 words).
Carrying a Nuke to Sevastopol
The U.S. Navy once planned to send a propeller-driven dive bomber to drop an atomic bomb on Russia (illustrated, about 30,000 words). [Read more here]
Remembering Bluie West One
The Arctic airfield that helped win the Second World War – and supposedly a warehouse for maimed soldiers (illustrated, about 6,000 words). [Read more here]
When Sun-tzu Met Clausewitz
A first cut at exploring John Boyd's OODA Loop and how it revolutionized the U.S. military (illustrated, about 4,000 words).
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A Death in the Forest
22,000 Polish officers and civilian leaders murdered by Stalin's order, their graves seen shortly after by an American prisoner of war, as recounted in the Congressional hearings of 1951-1952 (illustrated, 82 pages).
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