Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. PART I. LEAVING AND RETURNING
5. I. The Firing 3
6. II. From China to America 8
7. III. My Itinerant Education 14
8. IV. Hankow, the Far East Desk, and Pearl Harbor 25
9. PART II. ‘‘THIS ASSIGNMENT IS NOT MADE AT YOUR REQUEST NOR FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE’’
10. V. To Asia with Stilwell 39
11. VI. A Moment with Mr. Gandhi 55
12. VII. Nehru and ‘‘The Problem’’ 70
13. VIII. An American in India 82
14. IX. Willkie, Washington, and Vinegar Joe 92
15. X.Among the Naga Headhunters 109
16. PART III. PUBLIC AND PERSONAL DIPLOMACY
17. XI. The Politics of War 127
18. XII. Cairo: With Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang 142
19. XIII.The Resurrection of Britain’s Empire in Asia May Be Said to Lie Outside the Scope of Our Mission 155
20. XVI. Patricia’s Passage to India; A Soong Family Fracas 164
21. PART IV. THE QUESTION OF CHINA
22. XV. Stilwell’s Wars 177
23. XVI. The Generalissimo Versus the General 194
24. XVII. Meeting Mao 210
25. XVIII. Communists Versus Nationalists Versus Hurley 226
26. PART V. MOSCOW NIGHTS AND DAYS
27. XIX. Posted to Moscow 243
28. XX. Hurley’s Opening Salvo 262
29. XXI. Postwar Moscow xxi Postwar Moscow 274
30. PART VI. AT WAR AT HOME
31. XXII. Returning to America, and the China Lobby 289
32. XXIII. Assigned to Kennan’s Policy Planning Staff 295
33. XXIV. Working with the National Security Council 306
34. XXV. Revisiting Asia in 1948 312
35. XXVI. ‘‘The Most Nefarious Campaign of Half-Truths and Untruth in the History of the Republic’’ 320
36. Epilogue 331
37. Index 341
38. Acknowledgments 353