Flying Brothers
From Dogfights to Diplomacy in Cold War Southeast Asia
$101.15
- Hardcover
376 pages
- Release Date
15 October 2026
Summary
Flying Brothers drops you into cockpits and crisis rooms across the Cold War: supersonic F-5s herding rebel “Tora-Toras” over Manila in 1989, F-86 Sabres firing the first Sidewinder missiles against MiG-17s above the Taiwan Strait in 1958, and AT-6s striking a mutinous warship on a river in downtown Bangkok in 1951.
Instead of retelling Vietnam, Flying Brothers follows America’s three treaty allies in Southeast Asia—Taiwan, Thailand, and the Philippines—showing how they built airpower…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781501789007 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1501789007 |
| Author: | Daniel Jackson |
| Publisher: | Cornell University Press |
| Imprint: | Cornell University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 376 |
| Release Date: | 15 October 2026 |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History |
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About The Author
Daniel Jackson
Daniel Jackson is an active-duty Air Force officer and Assistant Professor of History at the US Air Force Academy. He previously served as a special operations pilot, flying 361 combat and combat support missions across the globe. He is the author of Fallen Tigers, The Forgotten Squadron, and Famine, Sword, and Fire.
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