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The Long March (Paperback)
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The Long March (Paperback)
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List price R329
Loot Price R271
Discovery Miles 2 710
You Save R58 (18%)
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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 bases by Chiang Kaishek and
his National troops. Walking more than 10,000 miles over mountains,
grassland and swamps, they suffered appalling casualties and ended
up in the remote barren North. Just one-fifth survived; they went
on to launch the new China in the heat of revolution. A legend was
born. Justified by a remarkable feat, the Long March was also a
triumph of propaganda, for Mao and for the revolution. Seventy
years later Sun Shuyun set out to retrace the Marchers' steps. The
rugged landscape has changed little. Her greatest difficult was in
wrestling with the scenes lodged in her mind since childhood, part
of the upbringing of every Chinese. On each stage of her journey,
she found hidden stories: the ruthless purges, the terrible toll of
hunger and disease, the fate of women on the March, the huge number
of desertions, the futile deaths. The real story of the March, the
most vivid pictures, come from the veterans whom Sun Shuyun has
found. She follows their trail through all those harsh miles,
discovers their faith and disillusion, their pain and their hopes,
and also recounts how many suffered even after the March's end in
1936. 'The Long March' was an epic journey of endurance, even more
severe than history books say, and courage against impossible odds.
It is a brave, exciting and tragic story. Sun Shuyun tells it for
the first time, as it really happened.
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