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- catalog abstract ""This is the story of an aviation pioneer who developed a major airline in China in the 1930s and 1940s. W. Langhorne Bond was a Pan American executive in the days when Pam Am was achieving mastery of the skies. The book tells the story of Bond's efforts to set up and operate a fledgling airline, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), while overcoming Chinese political machinations, attacks by invading Japanese forces, and changing and erratic American management and government policies."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12065758.
- catalog contributor b12065759.
- catalog coverage "China History Republic, 1912-1949.".
- catalog created "2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2001.".
- catalog description ""This is the story of an aviation pioneer who developed a major airline in China in the 1930s and 1940s. W. Langhorne Bond was a Pan American executive in the days when Pam Am was achieving mastery of the skies. The book tells the story of Bond's efforts to set up and operate a fledgling airline, the China National Aviation Corporation (CNAC), while overcoming Chinese political machinations, attacks by invading Japanese forces, and changing and erratic American management and government policies."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. Chosen for China -- 2. Tragedies, takeovers, and triumphs -- 3. Getting acquainted with Pan Am ... and a lady named Kitzi -- 4. The Sino-Japanese war begins -- 5. Rebuilding the airline in the midst of a widening war -- 6. Comparative quiet and a personal crisis -- 7. Adventure on the Burma Road -- 8. CNAC feels the full fury of war -- 9. Flying the Hump -- 10. Epilogue.".
- catalog extent "389 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Wings for an embattled China.".
- catalog identifier "0934223653 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Wings for an embattled China.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Bethlehem : Lehigh University Press,".
- catalog relation "Wings for an embattled China.".
- catalog spatial "China History Republic, 1912-1949.".
- catalog spatial "China".
- catalog subject "387.7/0951 21".
- catalog subject "Aeronautics, Commercial China History.".
- catalog subject "Bond, W. Langhorne, 1893-1985.".
- catalog subject "China National Aviation Corporation.".
- catalog subject "HE9878.A3 B66 2001".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Chosen for China -- 2. Tragedies, takeovers, and triumphs -- 3. Getting acquainted with Pan Am ... and a lady named Kitzi -- 4. The Sino-Japanese war begins -- 5. Rebuilding the airline in the midst of a widening war -- 6. Comparative quiet and a personal crisis -- 7. Adventure on the Burma Road -- 8. CNAC feels the full fury of war -- 9. Flying the Hump -- 10. Epilogue.".
- catalog title "Wings for an embattled China / by W. Langhorne Bond ; edited by James E. Ellis.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".