Gregory Crouch
Autor von The Bonanza King: John Mackay and the Battle over the Greatest Riches in the American West
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Gregory Crouch grew up in Goleta, California, and graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, with a military history field of study. He is the author of the true-life World War II flying adventure China's Wings and the alpine memoir Enduring Patagonia. He lives in the San Francisco Bay mehr anzeigen Area of California. weniger anzeigen
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real-life saga of the flying band of brothers who opened the skies over China in the years leading up to World War II--and boldly safeguarded them during that conflict--China's Wings is one of the most exhilarating untold chapters in the annals of flight.
At the center of the maelstrom is the book's courtly, laconic protagonist, American aviation executive William Langhorne Bond. In search of adventure, he arrives in Nationalist China in 1931, charged with turning around the turbulent nation's flagging airline business, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC).… (mehr)