This work is the new standard for analyzing the role of Chinese partisans in the rescue and repatriation of downed American flyers, and it will remain so in perpetuity. The author's ability to work in Chinese as well as English is of enormous benefit, as is his careful combing of the downed aircraft records to build a complete database of all the aircraft losses. Fallen Tigers is a huge contribution.
~Paul J. Springer, author of America's Captives: Treatment of POWs from the Revolutionary War to the War on Terror
Using extensive primary materials, Jackson chronicles the fate of the Flying Tigers in China and offers wonderful personal narratives from the flyers in wartime. The author's apparent Chinese language skills make this an important addition to the field.
~S. Mike Pavelec, author of Airpower Over Gallipoli, 1915–1916
In Fallen Tigers, author Daniel Jackson has taken an innovative approach to telling the history of the air war in China during World War II by folding it into the stories of Allied aircrewmen shot down behind Japanese lines and led to safety by local Chinese, who often risked their own lives in the process. Ample charts, graphs, maps, and photos complete this compelling work.
~Carl Molesworth, author of Flying Tiger Ace: The Story of Bill Reed, China's Shining Mark
Even historians specializing in World War II may be surprised by the large number of US pilots shot down over China, the scene of one of the great forgotten air campaigns of that global conflict. Jackson is uniquely qualified to tell this fascinating story in all its complexity as a military aviator, as a scholar with a deep understanding of the period he describes, and as a writer of the highest order. His real-life experience as a pilot shows. He has the ability to really bring the reader into the cockpit.
~Peter Harmsen, author of Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943
Moving and brilliant. From the very first page, this account of American airmen fighting in the skies of World War II China grips readers and never lets them go. This book is both an outstanding work of military history, explaining the immense strategic importance of American air support for defending wartime China against the Japanese; and a human story, telling an unknown story of courageous Americans saved by Chinese bravery. Even those who think they know World War II will need to read this book.
~Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War: How World War II Is Shaping a New Nationalism
An outstanding book that should be read by every American regardless of their interest in aviation or World War II.
~Ted Spitzmiller, author of The History of Human Space Flight
An interesting collection of remarkable adventures—adventures not always survived—undertaken by Americans who fell from the sky to a strange and dangerous land in a time of war.
~Stone & Stone Second World War Books
Fallen Tigers remains a very human story at heart.
~World War II magazine
