This well-preserved edition is near fine, dust jacket is near fine. The book is tight, square, and unmarked, black cloth boards and spine with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Maps as endpapers. The author recreates the Long March of 1934–1935, a grueling 6,000-mile retreat by Mao's Red Army into the Chinese hinterlands while being pursued by Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist forces. This march shaped a generation of Chinese Communists and laid the foundation for the Revolution that ultimately brought Mao to power in 1949. Critics praised Salisbury for his engaging storytelling and journalistic rigor, noting that he was one of the first Western journalists granted access to many Long March sites in China. His work was particularly lauded for its detailed narrative and extensive research into this pivotal event in Chinese Communist history.