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The Sound of Wings (MP3 format, CD)
Suzanne Simonetti; Read by Bernadette Dunne, Kelli Tager, Hillary Huber
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R769
R631
Discovery Miles 6 310
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From award-winning children s author Jean Fritz comes the
incredible true account of the Long March, a six-thousand-mile
journey across China
In 1986, Jean Fritz went to China and talked to survivors of the
Long March. It is from their recollections and her own broad,
personal knowledge of Chinese history that Fritz has written one of
the most compelling accounts of the incredible six-thousand-mile
journey across China made by the Communist Army in 1934 and
1935.
Fritz takes us on the route of the sixty-mile-long First Front
Army, the unit of Mao Zedong that wound its way through a terrain
so perilous it was often more threatening than their battles with
the enemy. The fear of a young soldier on Old Mountain afraid to go
to sleep in case he might roll over and fall off the cliff is real
to us; the drama and devastation that reduced the Red Army to
twenty thousand men and women are immediate. And when the army
crosses the thundering Dadu River on the threadbare remains of a
bridge, we cross our fingers and hope to make it, too.
Skillfully placing events within the context of history, Fritz
allows us to view them with the perspective of time, and, as she
shares the memories of those she talked with, she brings humanness
and intimacy to the participants and their unforgettable
journey.
Barb Barrett, recently divorced, is determined to reinvent herself.
She moves into a house once occupied by Vladimir Nabokov and
discovers what could be his last unpublished manuscript. From there
she begins a painful yet joyous journey.
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