CONTENTS

Author’s Note

Prologue: China Bound

1. Peking: Covering the Civil War

2. Yenan: At Mao Zedong’s Headquarters

3. Battle for Manchuria

4. Fall of Manchuria

5. Nanking

6. Battle of the Huai-Hai

7. The Jesuits

8. Crossing of the Yangtze

9. The Fall of Nanking

10. Communist Occupation

11. Huang Hua and J. Leighton Stuart

12. The Purge of My China Deputies

13. The Last Battle: Hainan Island

14. Saigon

15. The China Frontier

16. Burma: The CIA Operation

17. The Kennedy Brothers in Saigon

18. Hanoi

19. On the Diplomatic Beat and the Korean War

20. Geneva Accords: Partition of Vietnam

21. Berlin: Cold War

22. Moscow: The Sino-Soviet Split and the Cuban Missile Crisis

23. An Evening with Fidel Castro

24. President Kennedy

25. Operation Rolling Thunder

26. Smallbridge: Mission to Hanoi

27. Cambodia

28. Sihanouk Besieged

29. The B-52 Bombings

30. The Indonesian Holocaust and the Downfall of Sukarno

31. China Watching: The Cultural Revolution

32. Foreign Editor

33. The Pentagon Papers

34. Maoist Purge of the Party and Government

35. Zhou Enlai and the Future of Taiwan

36. Battle of the Pentagon Papers

37. The Trial

38. Fall of Indochina: America in Retreat

Epilogue: Lessons of the Asian Wars

A Note on Chinese Language Romanization, by Lawrence Sullivan

Bibliography

Index