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Daniel Ford (born 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'', ''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.〔(wimw-ford.blogspot.com )〕 He soloed in a J-3 Piper Cub at the age of 68. Office: 433 Bay Road, Durham NH 03824 USA. == Non-fiction == *''Poland's Daughter: How I Met Basia, Hitchhiked to Italy, and Learned About Love, War, and Exile'' (2013) ISBN 978-1494729899 *''A Vision So Noble: John Boyd, the OODA Loop, and America's War on Terror'' (2010) ISBN 978-1-4515-8981-8 *''Flying Tigers: Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942'' (2007) ISBN 978-0-06-124655-5 *Editor: ''The Lady and the Tigers: Remembering the Flying Tigers of World War II'', by Olga Greenlaw (2002) ISBN 978-0-595-22234-6 *''The Only War We've Got: Early Days in South Vietnam'' (2001) ISBN 978-0-595-17551-2 *''Glen Edwards: The Diary of a Bomber Pilot'' (1998) ISBN 978-1-56098-571-6 *The Country Northward (1976, 2010) ISBN 978-1-4528-3092-6 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Daniel Ford」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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