Skies of Thunder

'Riveting' * The New York Times * 'A clear and engaging narrative ... A thorough, but never dull, history for the reader curious about the reality of World War II' * The New York Journal of Books * 'Well-detailed and engagingly told' * The Wall Street Journal * 'A thrilling aviation adventure that also casts an assured historical lens on a lesser-known arena of WWII diplomacy, this is sure to enrapture readers' * Publishers Weekly (starred review) * 'Readers interested in the China-Burma-India Theater of World War II and Asian history will enjoy Alexander's detailed and beautifully written account' * Library Journal (starred review) * 'A fresh narrative that pulls readers into the challenges and complexities of this enormous theater of vast jungle and mountain at the end of the world' * U.S. Army War College Press * 'Author Caroline Alexander in her new book Skies of Thunder presents a riveting, faced-paced account of the action there both on the ground and in the skies that would make for a best-selling movie' * Asian Review of Books * '[Caroline Alexander] brings her keen eye and narrative skill to Skies of Thunder. A chronicle of waging war by flying over the Hump: those mountain ridges that make up the border of Burma and China and turned into a theater of both disasters and triumphs' * Airmail * 'Alexander's vivid retelling of this aerial feat is matched only by her exquisite rendering of the pilots' fear' * The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) * 'A seamless and illuminating piece of modern war history' * Shelf Awareness *