Chinas Long March, Jean Fritz
Chinas Long March, Jean Fritz
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Chinas Long March
6,000 Miles of Danger

Author: Jean Fritz

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Unabridged: 3 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/01/2014

Synopsis

From award-winning childrens 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.

About Jean Fritz

Jean Fritz, the Newbery Honor-winning author of Homesick, is best known for her engaging and enlightening nonfiction for young readers, including What’s the Big Idea, Ben Franklin?, And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?, and Shh! We’re Writing the Constitution. She was honored with the Knickerbocker Award for Juvenile Literature by the New York State Library Association and won the Laura Ingalls Wilder Award for her career contribution to American children’s literature.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Viktor on May 07, 2018

Positive: +It's amazing that hearing a story retold in a more personal way can make a reader find sympathy and understanding for people and perspectives that were previously strongly shut out by his own mental firewall. I had such an experience with this book, having previously read about the civil w......more

Goodreads review by The other John on April 23, 2009

In 1934, the Chinese Communist First Front Army began a strategic retreat from the Chinese Nationalist forces which resulted in a hard, 6,000 mile trek through the countryside of western China. This is known as the Long March and is quite a remarkable story of struggle, perseverance and triumph. If......more

Goodreads review by Brian on November 01, 2020

Lots of revisionist history. Many of these stories have been debunked over the years. And Mao is portrayed as sympathetic, when the reality is no less sympathetic person has ever lived.......more

Goodreads review by Anh on November 22, 2021

This was part of our sophomore homeschool history curriculum. As a war refugee fleeing the Communist take over of my home country, Vietnam, I can't say I was thrilled about having to read this After reading this book, you'd think that "Chairman Mao" was a kindly master who cared for his people and n......more

Goodreads review by Dawn on December 02, 2013

My knowledge of Chinese history and geography are spotty at best. This filled in a few more gaps. I had never heard of the long march of the communist First Front Army through China in 1934 and 1935. This short book gave me a new perspective on Mao as a young revolutionary. I need to bump Jean Fritz......more

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