Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Part I: Leaving and Returning -- I The Firing -- II From China to America -- III My Itinerant Education -- IV Hankow, the Far East Desk, and Pearl Harbor -- Part II: "This Assignment is not Made at your Request Nor for your Convenience" -- V To Asia with Stilwell -- VI A Moment with Mr. Gandhi -- VII Nehru and ''The Problem'' -- VIII An American in India -- XI Willkie, Washington, and Vinegar Joe -- X Among the Naga Headhunters -- Part III: Public and Personal Diplomacy -- XI The Politics of War -- XII Cairo: With Roosevelt, Churchill, and Chiang -- XIII The Resurrection of Britain's Empire in Asia May Be Said to Lie Outside the Scope of Our Mission -- XIV Patricia's Passage to India -- A Soong Family Fracas -- Part IV: The Question of China -- XV Stilwell's Wars -- XVI The Generalissimo Versus the General -- XVII Meeting Mao -- XVIII Communists Versus Nationalists Versus Hurley -- Part V: Moscow Night and Days -- XIX Posted to Moscow -- XX Hurley's Opening Salvo -- XXI Postwar Moscow -- Part VI: At War At Home -- XXII Returning to America, and the China Lobby -- XXIII Assigned to Kennan's Policy Planning Staff -- XXIV Working with the National Security Council -- XXV Revisiting Asia in 1948 -- XXVI ''The Most Nefarious Campaign of Half-Truths and Untruth in the History of the Republic'' -- Epilogue -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Acknowledgments.