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Pages: 450
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-08-30 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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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
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Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Barry Werth
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-08-20 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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The remarkable true story of the longest-held prisoner of war in American history, John Downey, Jr., a CIA officer captured in China during the Korean War and i
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Pages: 308
Authors: Hongshan Li
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-04-09 - Publisher: Columbia University Press

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The Cold War conflict between the United States and the People’s Republic of China did not only encompass political, military, diplomatic, and economic clashe
The China Firm
Language: en
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Authors: Thomas Larkin
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What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Compa
The Geography of Injustice
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: Barak Kushner
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In The Geography of Injustice, Barak Kushner argues that the war crimes tribunals in East Asia formed and cemented national divides that persist into the presen