John Pomfret

A narrative account of the relationship between the U.S. and China from the Revolutionary War to the present day Our relationship with China remains one of the most complex and rapidly evolving, and is perhaps one of the most important to our nation's future. InThe Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom, John Pomfret, the author of the bestsellingChinese Lessons, takes us deep into these two countries' shared history, and illuminates in vibrant, stunning detail every major event, relationship, and ongoing development that has affected diplomacy between these two booming, influential nations. We meet early American missionaries and chart their influence in China, and follow a group of young Chinese students who enroll in American universities, eager to soak up Western traditions. We witness firsthand major and devastating events like the Boxer Rebellion, and the rise of Mao. We examine both nations' involvement in world events, such as World War I and II. Pomfret takes the myriad historical milestones of two of the world's most powerful nations and turns them into one fluid, fascinating story, leaving us with a nuanced understanding of where these two nations stand in relation to one another, and the rest of the world.

America and China, 1776 to the Present

The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom

A journalist for The Washington Post offers an eyewitness account of the changes in China over the past forty years as he recalls his stint as a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford at China's Nanjing University and the lives of his Chinese classmates, in a study of the human cost of China's development.

Five Classmates and the Story of the New China

Chinese Lessons

polski wywiad, CIA i wyjątkowy sojusz

Pozdrowienia z Warszawy

Samuel Johnson

William Collins

James Hammond

John Hervey

The Laurel; Containing the Poetical Works of Collins, Dr. Johnson, Pomfret and Hammond (and Hervey).

From Warsaw with Love is the epic story of how Polish intelligence officers forged an alliance with the CIA in the twilight of the Cold War, told by the award-winning author John Pomfret. Spanning decades and continents, from the battlefields of the Balkans to secret nuclear research labs in Iran and embassy grounds in North Korea, this saga begins in 1990. As the United States cobbles together a coalition to undo Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait, six US officers are trapped in Iraq with intelligence that could ruin Operation Desert Storm if it is obtained by the brutal Iraqi dictator. Desperate, the CIA asks Poland, a longtime Cold War foe famed for its excellent spies, for help. Just months after the Polish people voted in their first democratic election since the 1930s, the young Solidarity government in Warsaw sends a veteran ex-Communist spy who’d battled the West for decades to rescue the six Americans. John Pomfret’s gripping account of the 1990 cliffhanger in Iraq is just the beginning of the tale about intelligence cooperation between Poland and the United States, cooperation that one CIA director would later describe as “one of the two foremost intelligence relationships that the United States has ever had.” Pomfret uncovers new details about the CIA’s black site program that held suspected terrorists in Poland after 9/11 as well as the role of Polish spies in the hunt for Osama bin Laden. In the tradition of the most memorable works on espionage, Pomfret’s book tells a distressing and disquieting tale of moral ambiguity in which right and wrong, black and white, are not conveniently distinguishable. As the United States teeters on the edge of a new cold war with Russia and China, Pomfret explores how these little-known events serve as a reminder of the importance of alliances in a dangerous world.

Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance

From Warsaw with Love

The Choice or Wish; a poem. Written by a person of Quality J. Pomfret

Poems upon Several Occasions. By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret ... The eighth edition corrected. With some account of his life and writings. To which are added, his Remains

By the Reverend Mr. John Pomfret. Viz. I. The Choice. ... VI. On the Conflagration, and Last Judgment. The Eighth Edition, Corrected. With Some Account of His Life and Writings. To which are Added, His Remains

Poems Upon Several Occasions

John Pomfret

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