Victory in Shanghai

Auteur

Robert S. Kim (unrelated to the Kim family in this book) is a lawyer and author who has served in the war in Iraq as the deputy treasury attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and worked for the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the Securities and Exchange Commission. Victory in Shanghai is his third book related to World War II.

Texte du rabat

Victory in Shanghai tells two intertwined and long-untold American origin stories: a Korean American family’s struggle to come to the United States during the Second World War era and the role of Asian Americans in the creation of modern U.S. intelligence and special operations.

Contenu

List of Illustrations
Foreword
Part I: Americans in Exile
Chapter 1: Victory
Chapter 2: From Korea to America
Chapter 3: Exile in Shanghai

Part II: 1941-1945
Chapter 4: James Kim, American Soldier
Chapter 5: American Resistance
Chapter 6: Exodus from Shanghai
Chapter 7: Peter and Richard Kim, American Soldiers
Chapter 8: American Underground
Chapter 9: Baptism of Fire
Chapter 10: Liberator
Chapter 11: Victory over Japan
Chapter 12: Mission to Shanghai – Operation Sparrow
Chapter 13: Victory in Shanghai
Chapter 14: The Caretaker of Shanghai
Chapter 15: Reunion in Shanghai

Part III: Return to America
Chapter 16: Americans at Last
Chapter 17: Reunited by the Korean War
Chapter 18: American Intelligence Officers
Chapter 19: Major Peter Kim, U.S. Army
Chapter 20: James Kim, CIA Station Chief
Chapter 21: Lieutenant Colonel and Reverend Richard Kim
Chapter 22: Arthur Kim, A Man with a Particular Set of Skills
Chapter 23: A Victory for America
Notes
Bibliography
Index