The story behind the struggle for democracy in China and the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, still the subject of widespread government censorship efforts.
The first complete book on the Tiananmen Square tragedy reveals how diplomats from the United States, Britain, and Europe knew exact details of the impending massacre of the students in Tiananmen. In a vivid narrative window into secret meetings in the Oval Office, CIA headquarters, and the private compound of China's leaders, more than one hundred interviewees contribute to an untold story.
Chaos Under Heavenreveals America and the West's betrayal of the children of China, who, for a brief moment in history, brought democracy to their homeland. In this stunning book, Gordon Thomas takes readers inside the tragic drama of those fifty-five days when the young people of China, crying out for freedom, rebelled against the old men of the Long March.
At stake were America's and the world's roles in the future of China. Once castigated by Karl Marx as a "carefully preserved mummy in a hermetically sealed coffin," China has become the superpower of the Pacific. As the students' demand for democracy escalated, the Western nations realized that their carefully cultivated ambitions for China were at risk. Their goal was to preserve the status quo.

Gordon Thomas is a political and investigative journalist and the author of fifty-three books, published in more than thirty countries and in dozens of languages. The total sales of his works exceed forty-five million copies.
He has been a widely syndicated foreign correspondent and was a writer and producer for three flagshipBBCprograms: Man Alive, Tomorrow's World,and Horizon. He contributes regularly to Facta, a respected monthly Japanese news magazine. Thomas was the lead expert for a twelve-part series on international intelligence for Ian Punnett's Coast to Coast, the most listened-to overnight radio broadcast in North America, with three million weekly listeners. He has recently appeared on Euronews(available in ten languages and three hundred million households) and Russia Today.
He has received numerous awards for his reporting, including an International Television Award and two Mark Twain Society Awards. Shipwreckwon an Edgar Award.
Four of Thomas's books- Voyage of the Damned, Ruin from the Air, The Day the Bubble Burst, and The Day Their World Ended-have been made into feature films starring such A-listers as Paul Newman, Billy Crystal, Robert Vaughn, and Jacqueline Bisset. The Day Guernica Diedis currently under option.
Thomas's most recent bestseller is Gideon's Spies: Mossad's Secret Warriors. Published in sixteen languages and forty countries, Gideon's Spiesis known throughout the world as the leading resource on Israeli intelligence. It was made into a major documentary forChannel 4 in Britain, which Thomas wrote and narrated, called The Spy Machine. The Observercalled The Spy Machinea "clear" picture of Israeli intelligence operations, and the Timescalled it "impressive" and "chilling."
A member of the London Speaker Bureau and Macmillan Speakers, Thomas continues to grow his already-impressive platform, lecturing widely on the secret world of intelligence. He also regularly provides expert analysis on intelligence for US and European television and radio programs.

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Contents
• Author's Note
• 1 - The Tiananmen Trump
• 2 - Seeds of Fire
• 3 - Illusions
• 4 - Secrets
• 5 - The Watch Keepers
• 6 - States of Mind
• 7 - The Roof of the World
• 8 - Persuasion
• 9 - Camelot, Almost
• 10 - Presidential Pragmatism
• 11 - Death in the Politburo
• 12 - Overtures
• 13 - Surges
• 14 - A Time of Decision
• 15 - Power Plays
• 16 - Countermoves
• 17 - Turmoil on Tiananmen
• 18 - The Beckoning Abyss
• 19 - Martial Law
• 20 - Marriage in Mayhem
• 21 - Massacre
• 22 - A Time of Pain
• 23 - For the Moment
• Explanations
• Notes
• Index
• About the Author
• Copyright Page