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Title: Misleading the Reader
Review: Mr. Salisbury makes it quite clear where his sympathies lie in the Chinese Civil War. I find it disturbing that he expresses his political leaning in print, where he has a reputation of impartiality.This book ignores the ugly realities that was the Long March in favor of perpetuating the myth that was one of the cornerstones of Communist China. There are other fact-based accounts of the Long March out there that will point out that--whatever your political leanings--the Long March was deadly (most of the Communist soldiers who started the March perished), the retreating Communist Army savagely oppressed the inhabitants of every region they passed through and occupied (a taste of things to come, sadly), and Mao used the March to brutally consolidate his hold over the Communist party.
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