Название: The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China
Автор: James M Zimmerman
Издательство: Public Affairs
ISBN: 1541701704
Год: 2023
Формат: EPUB
Страниц: 352
Размер: 16,4 МБ
Язык: Английский
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.