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The Peking Express The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
Author: James M Zimmerman
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 352
Format: EPUB
File size: 16,4 MB
Language: ENG
Year: 2023
Number of pages: 352
Format: EPUB
File size: 16,4 MB
Language: ENG
A Murder on the Orient Express–style adventure, set in China’s republican era. In May 1923, when Shanghai publisher and reporter John Benjamin Powell bought a first-class ticket for the Peking Express, he pictured an idyllic overnight journey on a brand-new train of unprecedented luxury—exactly what the advertisements promised.