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Turning point · China in Revolution, 1911–1949
The Grasslands
Aug 1935 — Above 3,000 meters the column crosses the Songpan marshes: bottomless mud, no fuel, no villages, grass and leather boiled for food. Survivors remembered it as worse than any battle. Of the 86,000 who left Ruijin, several thousand reach the north a year and 9,000 kilometers later.
This is one scene of Chapter 7 — The Long March in China in Revolution, 1911–1949.
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