Himself

HimselfFor 806 days between July 1967 and October 1969, Anthony Grey, a correspondent for Britain's Reuters wire service, was kept in solitary confinement, without charges, in Peking. His quarters were claustrophobically small. His diet was meager. At first, he was permitted a total of three books, on chess, yoga and communism (later, he stole a fourth, Doctor Zhivago). Desperately lonely, constantly humiliated and harassed, he was in fear of mental collapse. "To occupy my mind constructive...