Last Plane to Shanghai

Last Plane to Shanghai - Paperback

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Last Plane to Shanghai - Paperback

Last Plane to Shanghai - Paperback

by Richard Tregaskis
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by Richard Tregaskis (Author), Moana Tregaskis (Introduction by), Ray E. Boomhower (Afterword by)

Scott Osterman was at the end of his spiritual rope when he rescued Martha Shoop from a rioting mob in the streets of Shanghai. She, too, was drifting, trying desperately to cling to principles and ideals that were fatally undermined by the disintegration of the world around her under the onslaught of the Communist forces.


Their own shattered lives were reintegrated as Scott and Martha determined to shake off the immorality of their past and preserve what is decent in human life. Together they knew they had to act. Together they plunged into the turmoil. Their resolution led them to the thick of battle and into crises in which only their devotion to each other was the cause of freedom that sustained them. This inspiring, dramatic story of love and war is a tribute to the grandeur of the human spirit.


This story is a major publishing event, wherein through a tender and effecting love story, a theme of great consequence is unrolled for the American people-perhaps not too late to save us in the generally unrecognized war which shakes our world. The setting is the China civil war, which placed one fifth of the world's population in the Communist camp. The China War was the prototype of Cuba, the Congo, Laos, the first and greatest of the civil conflicts, the revolutions, the bush wars, through which the Reds have been conquering the world. This sets Last Plane to Shanghai apart from the many romance novels.

Number of Pages: 332
Dimensions: 0.74 x 9 x 6 IN
Publication Date: November 05, 2021
ISBN9781736295489
Author Richard Tregaskis
PublisherJmfdea Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedNovember 2021
LanguageENG- English
Pages332
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Richard Tregaskis (1916-1973) was a journalist and award-winning author best known for Guadalcanal Diary (1943), his bestselling chronicle of the US Marine Corps invasion of the Solomon Islands during World War II. Born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Tregaskis graduated from Harvard University and reported for the Boston American before joining the International News Service. Assigned to cover the Pacific Fleet operations after Pearl Harbor, he was one of only two reporters to land with the Marines on Guadalcanal Island. His dramatic account of the campaign was adapted into a popular film and became required reading for all Marine Corps officer candidates. Invasion Diary (1944) vividly recounts the Allied invasions of Sicily and Italy and Tregaskis's brush with death when a chunk of German shrapnel pierced his skull. Vietnam Diary (1963) documents the increased involvement of U.S. troops in the conflict between North and South Vietnam and was awarded the Overseas Press Club's George Polk Award. Tregaskis's other honors include the Purple Heart and the International News Service Medal of Honor for Heroic Devotion to Duty. He traveled the world many times over, and wrote about subjects as varied as the first space ship (X-15 Diary, 1961), John F. Kennedy's heroism during World War II (John F. Kennedy and PT-109, 1962), and the great Hawaiian king Kamehameha I (Warrior King, 1973). On August 15, 1973, Tregaskis suffered a fatal heart attack while swimming near his home in Hawaii. After a traditional Hawaiian funeral, his ashes were scattered in the waters off Waikiki Beach.

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