The Hostage Handbook by Anthony Grey
The inspiring secret diaries of a two-year solitary ordeal in China
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On a sweltering night in August 1967 a mob of 200 screaming Red Guards stormed a house in central Beijing yelling "Hang Grey! Hang Grey!"
Dragging British journalist Anthony Grey outside, they hanged a cat in his face, then shut him in an eight-foot square room daubed with slogans. He was held there in solitary confinement for more than two years at the height of China's Cultural Revolution.
He managed to write diaries in shorthand and kept them hidden from his guards. These verbatim transcripts, interspersed with reflections, portray starkly the battle for survival all hostages must face.
'The Hostage Handbook' offers readers a rare and intimate perspective on resilience in the face of adversity.