John Pomfret (1) (1961–)
Auteur van Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China
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The Beautiful Country and the Middle Kingdom: America and China, 1776 to the Present (2016) 159 exemplaren
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- 1961
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- New York City, New York, USA
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- Stanford University (BA, East Asian Studies)
Stanford University (MA, East Asian Studies)
Nanjing University - Beroepen
- journalist
- Korte biografie
- [excerpt from author's website]
Raised in New York City and educated at Stanford and Nanjing universities, I'm an award-winning journalist and author who's worked with the Washington Post for several decades. I'm currently a contributing writer to the Post's Global Opinions section. I routinely consult with multi-nationals and financial institutions on geostrategic issues. I am available to speak, virtually and in person, on geopolitics, US-China relations and European security.
I served as a foreign correspondent for 20 years and spent eight years covering big wars and small in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Congo, Sri Lanka and Iraq. I've been based in Warsaw, Vienna and Sarajevo. I've spent decades covering China—in the late 1980s during the Tiananmen Square protests, in the 1990s as the bureau chief for the Washington Post in Beijing and then back in DC.
In 2003, I won the Osborne Elliot Award for the best coverage of Asia. In 2007, I was awarded the Shorenstein Award from Harvard and Stanford universities for his lifetime coverage of Asia. In 1996, I was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting for my work in Congo.
I speak, read and write Mandarin, having spent two years at Nanjing University in the early 1980s as part of one of the first groups of American students to study in China. I'm a Stanford grad with a BA and MA in East Asian Studies.
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Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of… door John Pomfret
Modern China from the inside. It feels very real.
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.This is a review of the advanced copy “From Warsaw with Love: Polish Spies, the CIA, and the Forging of an Unlikely Alliance” by John Pomfret for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.
The book tells the story of the Polish-U.S. intelligence relationship in the last three decades. Definition of espionage or spying is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information. A person who commits espionage is called an espionage agent or spy.
After Poland’s first post-Communist, freely elected prime minister took office in 1990, the Polish and U.S. spy agencies began working together. Polish operatives came to the U.S. for training; the U.S. provided millions of dollars in cash and equipment.
In 1994, journalist John Pomfret was the Washington Post bureau chief for Eastern Europe, located in Warsaw. He hears a rumor that in 1990 America’s new allies were tested when six U.S. intelligence operatives found themselves trapped in Baghdad after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
The U.S. had turned to Poland, which had companies and citizens operating under contract in Iraq; Poles could move around there easily. It is a suspenseful tale of an almost insanely difficult exfiltration. Never a dull moment in this story.
The man who got it done, Gromek Czempinski, was a swashbuckling Tom Selleck look-alike who had spent decades spying against the U.S. under the Communists — and who disregarded direct orders not to execute the escape himself.
John Pomfret tracked down the story and it was no easy matter, but his efforts have produced an entertaining political history of Poland since World War II, almost entirely focused on its intelligence service, which, under Soviet domination, rivaled the KGB in its ability to steal U.S. secrets. Very scary stuff the ordinary citizen never hears about.
This reviewer highly recommends this book and rates the book with 4 ½ out of 5 stars.… (meer)
The book tells the story of the Polish-U.S. intelligence relationship in the last three decades. Definition of espionage or spying is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information from non-disclosed sources or divulging of the same without the permission of the holder of the information. A person who commits espionage is called an espionage agent or spy.
After Poland’s first post-Communist, freely elected prime minister took office in 1990, the Polish and U.S. spy agencies began working together. Polish operatives came to the U.S. for training; the U.S. provided millions of dollars in cash and equipment.
In 1994, journalist John Pomfret was the Washington Post bureau chief for Eastern Europe, located in Warsaw. He hears a rumor that in 1990 America’s new allies were tested when six U.S. intelligence operatives found themselves trapped in Baghdad after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait.
The U.S. had turned to Poland, which had companies and citizens operating under contract in Iraq; Poles could move around there easily. It is a suspenseful tale of an almost insanely difficult exfiltration. Never a dull moment in this story.
The man who got it done, Gromek Czempinski, was a swashbuckling Tom Selleck look-alike who had spent decades spying against the U.S. under the Communists — and who disregarded direct orders not to execute the escape himself.
John Pomfret tracked down the story and it was no easy matter, but his efforts have produced an entertaining political history of Poland since World War II, almost entirely focused on its intelligence service, which, under Soviet domination, rivaled the KGB in its ability to steal U.S. secrets. Very scary stuff the ordinary citizen never hears about.
This reviewer highly recommends this book and rates the book with 4 ½ out of 5 stars.… (meer)
Deze bespreking is geschreven voor LibraryThing Vroege Recensenten.I received this book from a LibraryThing giveaway. Unfortunately, I did not finish it. It just was not the right book for me, it failed to sustain my interest. I'm sure that this is not to say it is not a good book, and that others might find it fascinating, only that it wasn't for me.
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