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Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey America's Longest-Held - Downey
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- Objectstaat
- Publish Year
- 2022
- Book Title
- Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey America's
- ISBN
- 9780231199124
- Publication Name
- Lost in the Cold War : the Story of Jack Downey, America's Longest-Held Pow
- Item Length
- 0.9in
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Publication Year
- 2022
- Series
- A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations Ser.
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1in
- Item Width
- 0.6in
- Item Weight
- 24.1 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 344 Pages
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In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard "Dick" Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners of war came and went, but Downey and Fecteau's release hinged on the United States acknowledging their status as CIA assets. Not until Nixon's visit to China did Sino-American relations thaw enough to secure Fecteau's release in 1971 and Downey's in 1973. 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. Downey's lively and gripping memoir--written in secret late in life--interweaves horrors and deprivation with humor and the absurdities of captivity. He recounts his prison experiences: fearful interrogations, pantomime communications with his guards, a 3,000-page overstuffed confession designed to confuse his captors, and posing for "show" photographs for propaganda purposes. Through the eyes of his captors and during his tours around China, Downey watched the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, and the drastic transformations of the Mao era. In interspersed chapters, Thomas J. Christensen, an expert on Sino-American relations, explores the international politics of the Cold War and tells the story of how Downey and Fecteau's families, the CIA, the U.S. State Department, and successive presidential administrations worked to secure their release.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Columbia University Press
ISBN-10
0231199120
ISBN-13
9780231199124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
14057235137
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Lost in the Cold War : the Story of Jack Downey, America's Longest-Held Pow
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Series
A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on American-East Asian Relations Ser.
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
0.9in
Item Height
0.1in
Item Width
0.6in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ds921.5.S8d69 2022
Reviews
In this extraordinary volume, Jack Downey vividly describes how he, an American POW and, indeed, an American hero, lived through the horror of twenty years of solitary confinement in Mao's China; and Professor Christensen insightfully narrates the larger background--why and how confrontation became replaced by rapprochement between Beijing and Washington., An engrossing read, Lost in the Cold War is testament to one man's incomparable strength of character and endurance-both physical and mental. Inspiring and enlightening all at once., An engrossing read, Lost in the Cold War is a testament to one man's incomparable strength of character and endurance-both physical and mental. Inspiring and enlightening all at once., Most Cold War historians knew that Jack Downey had spent twenty years in Chinese captivity, but because of the low profile he kept following his release, they didn't know him. Now, posthumously, he's introduced himself with an extraordinary account of endurance, perseverance, and ultimately quiet triumph. Highly recommended indeed., The inviting, smartly observed account of one man's experience is all the more emotionally palpable because of its unsentimental presentation. The impressive interspersed chapters add perspective that will be invaluable to readers., In this extraordinary book, Jack Downey vividly describes how he, an American POW and an American hero, lived through the horror of twenty years of solitary confinement in Mao's China. Thomas J. Christensen insightfully narrates the larger background--why and how confrontation was replaced by rapprochement between Beijing and Washington., This inviting, smartly observed account of one man's experience is all the more emotionally palpable because of its unsentimental presentation. The impressive interspersed chapters add perspective that will be invaluable to readers.
Table of Content
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
Topic
Military / Korean War, Personal Memoirs, Asia / General, Military
Lccn
2021-060329
Dewey Decimal
951.90428
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
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