On the Front Lines of the Cold War: An American Correspondents Journal from the Chinese Civil War to the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam

by Seymour Topping

Book Overview

In the years following World War II, the United States suffered its most severe military and diplomatic reverses in Asia while Mao Zedong laid the foundation for the emergence of China as a major economic and military world power. 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807135569
• ISBN13: 9780807135563
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"