Red Star Over China Author:Edgar Snow Edgar Snow was the first Westerner to meet Mao and the Chinese Communist leaders in 1936 and the first to bring back an account of the men, the movement, and their seemingly impossible goals. Out of that experience came Red Star Over China, the classic work on the subject. — This edition includes extensive notes on military and political... more » developments in China; further interviews with Mao never before published; a chronology of “125 Years of Chinese Revolution”; almost one hundred detailed biographies of the men and women who have played a key role in modern Chinese history.« less
Almost like an adventure story. This was the guy that basically wrote the history (for Westerners) of the early Communist movement. The Long March and the "Sian Incident" figure prominently.