ILLUSTRATIONS

MAPS

China, ca. 1946

The Battle of the Huai-Hai

Frontier Route Coloniale 4: The French “Road of Death”

Korean War, 1950–51

Indochina, ca. 1965

Communist Logistics in Cambodia, 1969–70

PHOTOGRAPHS

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Author in Nanking shortly before the city fell to Mao Zedong’s forces in April 1949

Nationalist cavalry company retreating from Pengpu on the Huai River, November 1948

A suicide attack squad of the People’s Liberation Army during the Battle of the Huai-Hai

Defeated Nationalist commanding general, Tu Yu-ming, captured during the Battle of the Huai-Hai

General Chiang Wei-kuo, who commanded the Nationalist Armored Corps during the Battle of the Huai-Hai

Lin Biao, Liu Bocheng, and Chen Yi, field commanders of the People’s Liberation Army in the Chinese Civil War

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek on Chinese New Year’s Day, 1949, shortly before his resignation and retreat to Taiwan

Execution of captured Communist agents in Shanghai’s Chapei Park, November 1948

American Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart chatting with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Nanking, 1947

Mao Zedong reviewing his troops in Peking’s Tiananmen Square

Liu Shaoqi, head of state of China, eventually purged from the Communist Party and placed under house arrest

Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong and driving force in the Cultural Revolution

Edgar Snow, author of the epic Red Star over China, with interpreter Huang Hua, 1970

Author traveling with a Foreign Legion convoy to the Vietnam-China frontier, 1950

Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, commander of the French forces in the French Indochina War, 1951

Graham Greene in the author’s Saigon apartment, 1951

Tiger hunt in Vietnam’s Central Highlands, 1950

Ho Chi Minh, president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam

Major General Charles Willoughby accepting the surrender of Japanese troops in the Philippines in 1945

Douglas MacArthur being briefed on the advance of American troops in the Korean War, September 1950

Chinese Communist troops crossing the Yalu River border into North Korea, October 1950

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Correspondents at Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie, 1957

Author meeting with captive American servicemen in Dresden, Communist East Germany, 1958

U.S. Ambassador Lewellyn Thompson with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, Jane Thompson, and Nina Khrushchev, 1960

Khrushchev with Leonid Brezhnev at a Kremlin reception on November 7, 1962

Author’s daughters being outfitted for attendance at a Russian school

Author interviewing Fidel Castro in Havana, 1983

The Topping family on Hong Kong’s Repulse Bay

American briefing in Saigon during the Vietnam War, 1964

Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia on arrival at Phnom Penh airport in 1964

Author with Cambodian defense minister General Lon Nol, checking out reports of North Vietnamese bases on the Cambodia border

James Reid, decorated U.S. military intelligence officer, at a base in South Vietnam in 1967

Indonesian president Sukarno meeting with President Kennedy and Vice President Johnson in 1961

Chinese premier Zhou Enlai with Canadian ambassador Chester Ronning and his daughter Audrey Topping, 1973

Audrey Topping riding with the Kazaks, 1975

Henry Kissinger visiting former Chinese foreign minister Huang Hua in a Beijing hospital, 2008

Audrey Topping’s missionary grandparents

The author’s parents, Joseph and Anna Topolsky, 1916

Menfolk of the author’s family in Kobryn, on the Polish-Russian border

The Topping daughters