In 1952, John T. à â Å Jackà â  Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the next twenty years. Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downeyà â â s decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home.
In 1952, John T. à â Å Jackà â  Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer, was shot down over Manchuria. He was captured by the Chinese and held for the next twenty years. Lost in the Cold War is the never-before-told story of Downeyà â â s decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home.
Produktdetails
Produktdetails
A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on Americanâ East Asian Relations
John T. Downey (1930-2014) was the longest-held prisoner of war in U.S. history. He went on to serve as commissioner of the Department of Public Utilities for the state of Connecticut and as a Connecticut Superior Court judge. In 2013, the CIA awarded Downey the Distinguished Intelligence Cross, the agency's highest honor. Thomas J. Christensen is the James T. Shotwell Professor of International Relations and the director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2006 to 2008, and his books include The China Challenge: Shaping the Choices of a Rising Power (2015). Jack Lee Downey is the John Henry Newman Professor of Roman Catholic Studies at the University of Rochester. He is the author of The Bread of the Strong: Lacouturisme and the Folly of the Cross, 1910-1985 (2015).
Inhaltsangabe
Note to the Reader 1. A Perfect Ambush 2. An American Hero on a Fool's Mission 3. Who I Am, Where I Came From 4. The Korean Watershed: The Cold War Begins for Downey and America 5. The Making of a Mission 6. The Flight Over China 7. Interrogation Days in Shenyang 8. Of Soldiers and Spies 9. A Man in a Box 10. The Long Confession 11. The Trial 12. B-29 Crew Were Released from China 13. The China I Saw, with America in My Mind 14. "Your Government Does Not Want You Back": The Failure of U.S.-PRC Negotiations at Geneva 15. Prison Life 16. Cellmates 17. Keepers and Comrades 18. A Pinhole View on a Massive Tragedy: 1958-1970 19. Family Visits 20. U.S.-PRC Rapprochement and Jack Downey's Release: 1968-1973 21. Coming Home Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index
Note to the Reader 1. A Perfect Ambush 2. An American Hero on a Fool's Mission 3. Who I Am, Where I Came From 4. The Korean Watershed: The Cold War Begins for Downey and America 5. The Making of a Mission 6. The Flight Over China 7. Interrogation Days in Shenyang 8. Of Soldiers and Spies 9. A Man in a Box 10. The Long Confession 11. The Trial 12. B-29 Crew Were Released from China 13. The China I Saw, with America in My Mind 14. "Your Government Does Not Want You Back": The Failure of U.S.-PRC Negotiations at Geneva 15. Prison Life 16. Cellmates 17. Keepers and Comrades 18. A Pinhole View on a Massive Tragedy: 1958-1970 19. Family Visits 20. U.S.-PRC Rapprochement and Jack Downey's Release: 1968-1973 21. Coming Home Afterword Acknowledgments Notes Index
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