This short novel marks another triumph by the New York Times–bestselling author of Sophie's Choice and Darkness Visible, who has been honored with both a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award, among other accolades.
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Retracing the events and personalities of China's Long March, a colorful narrative describes the epic odyssey of thousands of Chinese Communist followers from their bases to the remote north of China, going behind the myth to recount the ...
"Detailed discussion of reforms necessary to accelerate economic growth and reduce poverty in the region.
A portrait of 20th-century China written by the author of "The Second Sex", Simone de Beauvoir.
In October 1934, the First Front Army of the Chinese Communist Party fled annihilation by Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalists. Some 80,000 men, women and children left their homes to walk with...
The Long March: The Story of the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa
Others may think of the 1960s as the Last Good Time, but Roger Kimball has no patience with false nostalgia.
Sinn Féin has undergone a startling transformation in the last two-and-a-half decades. Under the leadership of its two principal figures Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness the mainstream party of Irish...
Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March.In 1934, the fledgling Communist Party and its 200,000 strong armies were forced out of their...
The Long March: 1934-1935, a Red Army Survives to Bring Communism to China
An engrossing account (New York Times Book Review) of the Red Army's flightfrom the superior forces of Chiang Kai-shek in China during 1934-1935. Authortour.
In this book, the contours of Sinn Féin's recent evolution are considered, with particular emphasis on the various strategic objectives that the party has set itself.