Sam Kleiner's The Flying Tigers tells the story of the group young American men and women who crossed the Pacific before Pearl Harbor to risk their lives defending the embattled forces of Chiang Kai-Shek's China. For their daring exploits and remarkable string of victories, they became known as the Flying Tigers. In his book Samuel Kleiner takes readers into the cockpits of their iconic shark-nosed planes—one of the most familiar images of the war—as the Tigers perform nail-biting missions against the Japanese, destroying some 297 enemy aircraft in Burma, Thailand, and China. A dramatic story of covert operations whose very existence would have scandalized an isolationist United States, The Flying Tigers is the unforgettable account of a group of Americans whose actions changed the world, and who today are viewed as heroes not only in our own country but are revered in China as well.