Background
The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he attended public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, graduating in 1950 from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
("Every change is a change for the better!" cries the High...)
"Every change is a change for the better!" cries the High Country Illuminator in this madcap novel, set in the ski-bum paradise of Avalon, Colorado. (Think Aspen!) HCI is George Togalok, a Native American from the Salt River Canyon country. Around him assemble cunning Silver Fox, brainy Duke University, the Outt-keepers, Max and Max's Buddy, some fluffy birds, and other young slackers who want nothing more from life than the chance to ski the fluffy white powder of the Colorado Rockies. A counterculture story for the ages.
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(This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancas...)
This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, "Go Tell the Spartans." The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack, and the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the mistakes of the French! 'Sad, bawdy, and compelling, ' wrote the "Detroit Free Press....
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(This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancas...)
This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancaster movie, Go Tell the Spartans. The year is 1964--early days in South Vietnam--and the U.S. Army Raiders have garrisoned a town that the French abandoned ten years before. The Viet Cong attack, and the Americans reinforce. They're not about to repeat the mistakes of the French! 'Sad, bawdy, and compelling,' wrote the Detroit Free Press. Prophetic, too, of how the larger war would end. Revised 2015 edition.
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("A richly colorful novel ... and life collides with every...)
"A richly colorful novel ... and life collides with everyone's hopes and ideals in ways that Mr. Ford endows with freshness and surprise."—New York Times Book Review In the words of the New Hampshire statute, "now comes Theodora" to file for divorce from Colin, who prefers to march for world peace than stay home with his pregnant wife. She and the baby take refuge with Boris, photographer of nudes, who in all innocence finds himself in love for the first time in his life. Daniel Ford's debut novel is a fascinating cameo of university life in the 1960s—before Woodstock, before Vietnam, but not before student rebels. "It is impossible not to keep on watching them, simply because they are so human and so young and selfish and opinionated and anxious … The clear-sighted, unangry Mr. Ford will undoubtedly write another novel, which means we all have something to look forward to."—The New Yorker
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( During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, ...)
During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, a handful of American pilots met and bloodied the "Imperial Wild Eagles" of Japan and in turn won immortality as the Flying Tigers. One of America's most famous combat forces, the Tigers were recruited to defend beleaguered China for $600 a month and a bounty of $500 for each Japanese plane they shot down—fantastic money in an era when a Manhattan hotel room cost three dollars a night. To bring his prize-winning history of the American Volunteer Group up to date, Daniel Ford has completely rewritten his 1991 text, drawing on the most recent U.S., British, and Japanese scholarship. New material from AVG veterans—including Erik Shilling and Tex Hill—help fill out the story, along with newfound recollections from Japanese and New Zealand airmen. Ford also takes up the rumors that Royal Air Force pilots "sold" combat victories to the Flying Tigers in order to share in the bounties paid by the Chinese government. "Admirable," wrote Chennault biographer Martha Byrd of Ford's original text. "A readable book based on sound sources. Expect some surprises." Even more could that be said of this new and more complete edition.
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(Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thou...)
Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thousand miles of trails, the White Mountains have long been a hiker's paradise. Here is a first-person account of the world that begins where the pavement ends. Fishermen, backpackers, trail-bikers ... goofers, peak baggers, and through hikers ... you'll find them all in the White Mountains, and you'll meet them all in the pages of this compelling book.The year is 1975, when it was still possible to find space in a lean-to shelter, when the Old Man of the Mountains still showed his splendid profile over Franconia Notch, and when hikers still smoked.
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The son of Patrick and Anne Ford, he attended public schools in New Hampshire and Massachusetts, graduating in 1950 from Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Bachelor, University New Hampshire, 1954. Postgraduate, University Manchester, England, 1955. Master of Arts, King's College London, 2010.
Ford served in the United States. Army at Fort Bragg and in Orléans, France. Following an apprenticeship at the Overseas Weekly in Frankfurt, Germany, he became a free-lance writer in Durham, New Hampshire. He is best known for his Flying Tigers research and for the Vietnam novel that became the Burt Lancaster film, Go Tell the Spartans.
Ford is a resident scholar at the University of New Hampshire.
He soloed in a J-3 Piper Cub at the age of 68. Office: 433 Bay Road, Durham New Hampshire 03824 United States of America.
Poland"s Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and Exile (2013)
A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America"s War on Terror (2010)
Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942 (2007)
Editor: The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World World War II, by Olga Greenlaw (2002)
The Only War We"ve Got: Early Days in South Vietnam (2001)
Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot (1998)
The Country Northward (1976, 2010).
( During World War II, in the skies over Rangoon, Burma, ...)
("Every change is a change for the better!" cries the High...)
(Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thou...)
(A 12-year-old describes his 9-day struggles to survive af...)
(This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancas...)
(This is the story that inspired the acclaimed Burt Lancas...)
("A richly colorful novel ... and life collides with every...)
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He was educated at the University of New Hampshire (Bachelor of Arts Political Science 1954), the University of Manchester (Fulbright Scholar, Modern European History 1954-1955), and King"s College London (Master of Arts War Studies 2010). He writes for the Wall Street Journal, Michigan War Studies Review, and Air&Space/Smithsonian magazine. Maintains the Warbird"s Forum, Piper Cub Forum, and Reading Proust websites.
And blogs on Dan Ford"s Blog.
With United States Army, 1956-1957. Member Metropolitan Opera Guild, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Sarah Lansing Paine, July 28, 1967. 1 child, Katharine Serena.