Downey / Christensen Lost in the Cold War

The Story of Jack Downey, America’s Longest-Held POW
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-0-231-55295-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

Reihe: A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations

In 1952, John T. “Jack” 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 Downey’s decades as a prisoner of war and the efforts to bring him home.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Downey, John T.

Downey, Jack

Christensen, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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 director of the China and the World Program at Columbia University. 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).