The Long March - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long March write by Shuyun Sun. This book was released on 2006. The Long March available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Long March 1934–35
The Long March 1934–35 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long March 1934–35 write by Benjamin Lai. This book was released on 2019-09-19. The Long March 1934–35 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Every nation has its founding myth, and for modern China it is the Long March. In the autumn of 1934, the Chinese Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek routed the Chinese Communists and some 80,000 men, women and children left their homes to walk with Mao Zedong into the unknown. Mao's force had to endure starvation, harsh climates, and challenging terrain whilst under constant aerial bombardment and threatened by daily skirmishes. The Long March survivors had to cross 24 rivers and 18 mountain ranges, through freezing snow and disease-ridden wilderness to reach their safe-haven of Yan'an. In military terms, the Long March was the longest continuous march in the history of warfare and it came as a terrible cost – after one year, 6,000 miles and countless battles, fewer than 4,000 of the original marchers were left. Illustrated with stunning full-colour artwork, this enthralling book tells the full story this epic display of resilience, and shows how, from the desert plateau of Yan'an, these survivors would grow the army that conquered China 14 years on, changing history forever.
The Long March
The Long March - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long March write by Harrison Evans Salisbury. This book was released on 1985. The Long March available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Long March
The Long March - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Long March write by William Styron. This book was released on 1952. The Long March available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the shadow of the Korean War, a series of misfired mortar shells kill eight men in a Marine camp during a training exercise, prompting the commanding officer to order a grueling punishment: a thirty-six mile march through the suffocating heat of the Carolina summer. Intended to beat discipline into the aging reservists, the march instead rankles Lieutenant Culver and Captain Mannix, whose growing resentment of the brutal trek leads to an ultimate, powerful act of rebellion. The Long March is a withering critique of a military system that leaves no room for dignity or personal identity. Told in part through flashbacks and dream sequences, the story is immersed in vivid language and philosophical reflection--a poignant defense of the individual in the face of attempted dehumanization.
From Revolution To Politics
From Revolution To Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Revolution To Politics write by Benjamin Yang. This book was released on 1990-04-25. From Revolution To Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
