Lost in the Cold War: The Story of Jack Downey, America's Longest-Held POW

by Thomas J. Christensen, Jack Lee Downey, John T. Downey

Book Overview

In 1952, John T. "Jack" Downey, a twenty-three-year-old CIA officer from Connecticut, was shot down over Manchuria during the Korean War. The pilots died in the crash, but Downey and his partner Richard "Dick" Fecteau were captured by the Chinese. For the next twenty years, they were harshly interrogated, put through show trials, held in solitary confinement, placed in reeducation camps, and toured around China as political pawns. Other prisoners...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231199120
• ISBN13: 9780231199124
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.1"