{"title":"John Pomfret","description":"John Pomfret is a reporter for The Washington Post. Formerly the Post's Beijing bureau chief, he is now the Los Angeles bureau chief. In 2003, Pomfret was awarded the Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Asian Journalism by the Asia Society, an annual award for best coverage of Asia. He lives with his wife and family in Los Angeles.","products":[{"product_id":"chinese-lessons-five-classmates-and-the-story-of-the-new-china-paperback","title":"Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA first-hand account of the remarkable transformation of China over the past forty years as seen through the life of an award-winning journalist and his four Chinese classmates\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs a twenty-year-old exchange student from Stanford University, John Pomfret spent a year at Nanjing University in China. His fellow classmates were among those who survived the twin tragedies of Mao's rule--the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution--and whose success in government and private industry today are shaping China's future. Pomfret went on to a career in journalism, spending the bulk of his time in China. After attending the twentieth reunion of his class, he decided to reacquaint himself with some of his classmates. \u003ci\u003eChinese Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e is their story and his own. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBeginning with Pomfret's first days in China, \u003ci\u003eChinese Lessons\u003c\/i\u003e takes us back to the often torturous paths that brought together the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. One classmate's father was killed during the Cultural Revolution for the crime of being an intellectual; another classmate labored in the fields for years rather than agree to a Party-arranged marriage; a third was forced to publicly denounce and humiliate her father. As we watch Pomfret and his classmates begin to make their lives as adults, we see as never before the human cost and triumph of China's transition from near-feudal communism to first-world capitalism.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366149685471,"sku":"9780805086645","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/bUz1qorWft9780805086645.webp?v=1789084460"},{"product_id":"from-warsaw-with-love-polish-spies-the-cia-and-the-forging-of-an-unlikely-alliance-paperback","title":"From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Warsaw with Love\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSpanning 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369498247391,"sku":"9781250848802","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/GEHw7t6R0i9781250848802.webp?v=1789142497"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/john-pomfret.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}