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3 comments about Bold Plum: with the Guerillas in China's War against Japan.

1. "Bold Plum" is a unique contribution to an understanding of Chinese
   Communist organization, methods and policies during the "Anti-Japanese
   War" years 1939-1945. As a retired Chinese-language-trained Foreign
   Service Officer, I particularly value first-person accounts of
   experiences in China that are written objectively. Hsiao-li Lindsay tells
   of her experiences living in Communist-controlled villages
   dispassionately - a rare virtue when too many first-person accounts are written
   with "an agenda". While her husband, Lord Michael Lindsay,
   was working with the Communists to improve their radio communications
   in the struggle against the Japanese occupiers, Hsiao-li
   observed the daily life of the villages in which they lived.
   "Bold Plum" is not only a unique contribution to the literature for the
   specialist, it is also fascinating for the general reader. (In 1955 Lord Lindsay published
   "China and the Cold War" (Michael Lindsay: Melbourne Univ. Press),
   a dissection of the increasingly irrational aspects of Chinese Communist
   policies after the end of World War II).



2. The book is a first hand history of the war against the Japanese by Mao Tse Tung and the Chinese during WWII. It was fascinating, could not put it down. Imagine being a young newly wed walking many miles, enduring attacks and hardships, giving birth and suffering hunger in a distant place. Very unique story.



3. The wartime China from 1937-1949 has not been sufficiently discussed in both the academic and popular realms. Bold Plum provides an alternative narrative from the official history-- one that is told by a Chinese woman whose lived an extraordinaray life during the time -- that will surely deepen our understanding of the rising power of the Communist China in rural northern China in the 1940s.
   
   It is my fortune to come across the publication of Bold Plum; it has given me so much information about the wartime China. I bought a copy of it and coudln't put it down. The story is a personal account of the argubly most important time of modern China, a nation was transforming into a socialist state. I highly recommand it to all students and reserachers of the history of (modern) China.

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2 comments about The Atomic Bomb: Voices from Hiroshima and Nagasaki (Japan in the Modern World).

1. Certain essays from this book were requirements for an international relations class I took. After reading two of the stories I had to read the entire book. It is a truely excellent window into the effects of the atomic bomb on humans. It took me below the mushroom cloud, it was graphic, gripping, and effective. It does not focus on justifications for the bomb, it focuses purely on the effects. I plan on buying it in the near future because it is such an excellent testimonial.



2. I reviewed that te book was a great review of how terrible the devigstation was. Had great detail

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1 comments about God's Arms Around Us.

1. When I was a young boy I saw the Jack Paar show? and one day Paar was interviewing a family that had been captured by the Japanese during World War II and were interned in a P.O.W. camp. This family suffered tremendously. The man, William R. Moule, wrote a book and I still remembered the title from 40 years ago "God's Arms Around Us."

   Well to make a long story short, I searched Amazon .com for the title 40 years later and they had it!! The book was extremely exciting, I am surprised it has never been made into a movie.

   Mr. Moule's writing style was very personal, he has the ability to make you feel you are right there with him, his wife and 3 small children trying to escape the Japanese who are looking for them.

   I highly recommend this book to anyone that has any relative who fought in the Second World War or has an interest in WW II. It was really great!!

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