John T. Downey, Thomas Christensen, Jack Downey

Gebundenes Buch

Lost in the Cold War

The Story of Jack Downey, America's Longest-Held POW

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• A Nancy Bernkopf Tucker and Warren I. Cohen Book on Americanâ East Asian Relations
• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 163mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 692g
• ISBN-13: 9780231199124
• ISBN-10: 0231199120
• Artikelnr.: 63089124