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Daniel Ford (1931 -) is an American journalist, novelist, and historian. 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. He was educated at the University of New Hampshire (A.B. Political Science 1954), the University of Manchester (Fulbright Scholar, Modern European History 1954—55), and King's College London (M.A. War Studies 2010).

Ford served in the U.S. 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 received a Stern Fund Magazine Writers' Award (1964) for his dispatches from South Vietnam, published in The Nation; a Verville Fellowship (1989—90) at the National Air and Space Museum to work with Japanese accounts of the air war in Southeast Asia; and an Aviation - Space Writers' Association Award of Excellence (1992) for his history of the Flying Tigers. 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 writes for the Wall Street Journal and Air&Space/Smithsonian magazine, maintains the Warbird's Forum, Piper Cub Forum, and Reading Proust websites, and blogs on War in the Modern World. He soloed in a J-3 Piper Cub at the age of 68 and continues to fly as a sport pilot. Office: 433 Bay Road, Durham NH 03824 USA.

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Total Books: 30
Flying Tigers Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers 19411942
2016 - Flying Tigers Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers 19411942 (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780692734735
ISBN-10: 0692734732
Genre: History
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Tales of the Flying Tigers Five Books about the American Volunteer Group Mercenary Heroes of Burma and China
Poland's Daughter How I Met Basia Hitchhiked to Italy and Learned About Love War and Exile
Fans Guide to World Rugby
2011 - Fans Guide to World Rugby (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781847738134
ISBN-10: 1847738133
Genre: Sports & Outdoors
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A Fan's Guide to World Cricket
2010 - A Fan's Guide to World Cricket (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781847737090
ISBN-10: 1847737099
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A Vision So Noble John Boyd the OODA Loop and America's War on Terror
2010 - A VIsion So Noble John Boyd the Ooda Loop and America's War on Terror (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781451589818
ISBN-10: 1451589816
Genre: History
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Don't Touch the Nuts And Other Unwritten Rules of the British Pub
2010 - Don't Touch the Nuts and Other Unwritten Rules of the British Pub (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781847737045
ISBN-10: 1847737048
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A Football Fan's Guide to Europe
2009 - A Football Fan's Guide to Europe (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781847734655
ISBN-10: 1847734650
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Michael's War A Story of the Irish Republican Army
2003 - Michael's War a Story of the Irish Republican Army (Hardcover)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780595751198
ISBN-10: 0595751199
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The Lady and the Tigers Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II
2002 - The Lady and the Tigers Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780595222346
ISBN-10: 059522234X
Genres: History, Nonfiction
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The Only War We've Got Early Days in South Vietnam
2001 - The Only War We've Got Early Days in South VIetnam (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780595175512
ISBN-10: 0595175511
Genres: History, Literature & Fiction
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The Country Northward A Hiker's Journal
2000 - The Country Northward a Hiker's Journal (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780595146321
ISBN-10: 0595146325
Genres: Reference, Sports & Outdoors, Travel, Outdoors & Nature
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Remains
2000 - Remains [a story of the Flying Tigers] (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780595126798
ISBN-10: 0595126790
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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The High Country Illuminator
2000 - The High Country Illuminator (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780595089161
ISBN-10: 059508916X
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Now Comes Theodora
2000 - Now Comes Theodora (Paperback)Paperback
ISBN-13: 9780595089178
ISBN-10: 0595089178
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Incident at Muc Wa A Novel of War in Southeast Asia
2000 - Incident at Muc Wa a Novel of War in Southeast Asia (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780595089277
ISBN-10: 0595089275
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Flying Tigers Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group
1995 - Flying Tigers Claire Chennault and the American Volunteer Group [Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series] (Paperback)Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781560985419
ISBN-10: 1560985410
Genre: History
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The Cult of the Atom  The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission
1982 - The Cult of the Atom the Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780671253011
ISBN-10: 0671253018
Genres: Nonfiction, Law, Engineering & Transportation, Substores
  • Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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Beyond the freeze The road to nuclear sanity
1982 - Beyond the Freeze the Road to Nuclear Sanity (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780807004845
ISBN-10: 0807004847
Genres: Nonfiction, Engineering & Transportation
  • Currently 3/5 Stars.
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Go tell the Spartans
1979 - Go Tell the Spartans (Other)
ISBN-13: 9780515052039
ISBN-10: 0515052035
Genre: Literature & Fiction
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Carter's Coast of New England
1977 - Carter's Coast of New England (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780912274539
ISBN-10: 0912274530
Genre: Travel
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