On the Front Lines of the Cold War

by Topping, Seymour

• ISBN13: 9780807135563
• ISBN10: 0807135569
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-03
• Publisher: Louisiana State Univ Pr

Summary

As a correspondent for the International News Service, the Associated Press, and later for the New York Times, Seymour Topping documented on the ground the tumultuous events during the Chinese Civil War, the French Indochina War, and the American retreat from Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos. In this riveting narrative, Topping chronicles his extraordinary experiences covering the East-West struggle in Asia and Eastern Europe from1946 into the 1980s, taking us beyond conventional historical accounts to provide a fresh, first-hand perspective on American triumphs and defeats during the Cold War era.

Table of Contents

Author's Note	p. xv
Prologue: China Bound	p. 1
Peking: Covering the Civil War	p. 7
Yenan: At Mao Zedong's Headquarters	p. 14
Battle for Manchuria	p. 30
Fall of Manchuria	p. 37
Nanking	p. 45
Battle of the Huai-Hai	p. 53
The Jesuits	p. 75
Crossing of the Yangtze	p. 78
The Fall of Nanking	p. 84
Communist Occupation	p. 91
Huang Hua and J. Leighton Stuart	p. 95
The Purge of My China Deputies	p. 107
The Last Battle: Hainan Island	p. 111
Saigon	p. 122
The China Frontier	p. 135
Burma: The CIA Operation	p. 148
The Kennedy Brothers in Saigon	p. 151
Hanoi	p. 158
On the Diplomatic Beat and the Korean War	p. 165
Geneva Accords: Partition of Vietnam	p. 184
Berlin: Cold War	p. 190
Moscow: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Cuban Missile Crisis	p. 196
An Evening with Fidel Castro	p. 214
President Kennedy	p. 218
Operation Rolling Thunder	p. 225
Smallbridge: Mission to Hanoi	p. 232
Cambodia	p. 242
Sihanouk Besieged	p. 253
The B-52 Bombings	p. 265
The Indonesian Holocaust and the Downfall of Sukarno	p. 278
China Watching: The Cultural Revolution	p. 297
Foreign Editor	p. 310
The Pentagon Papers	p. 328
Maoist Purge of the Party and Government	p. 336
Zhou Enlai and the Future of Taiwan	p. 345
Battle of the Pentagon Papers	p. 358
The Trial	p. 365
Fall of Indochina: America in Retreat	p. 381
Epilogue: Lessons of the Asian Wars	p. 390
A Note on Chinese Language Romanization	p. 399
Bibliography	p. 403
Index	p. 411
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