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The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China ~ SIGNED
by Zimmerman, James M
- New
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- New/New
- ISBN 10
- 1541701704
- ISBN 13
- 9781541701700
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About This Item
New in new dust jacket. Signed by author. Brand new, never read. SIGNED FIRST EDITION, first printing stated. Personally flat signed by the author directly to the full title page. Not a tip in. Not a bookplate. Dust jacket hand covered in protective archival grade Mylar for many worry free years of reading/collecting! Photos available upon request. The thrilling true story of train-robbing revolutionaries and passengers who got more than they paid for in this 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. Seeing his fellow passengers, including mysterious Italian lawyer Giuseppe Musso, a confidante of Mussolini and lawyer for the opium trade, and American heiress Lucy Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr., he knew it would be an unforgettable trip. Charismatic bandit leader and populist rabble rouser Sun Mei-yao had also taken notice of the new train from Shanghai to Peking. On the night of Powell s trip of a lifetime, Sun launched his plan to make a brazen political statement: he and a thousand fellow bandits descended on the train, capturing dozens of hostages. Aided by local proxy authorities, the humiliated Peking government soon furiously gave chase. At the bandits mountain stronghold, a five-week siege began. Brilliantly written, with new and original research, The Peking Express tells the incredible true story of a clash that shocked the world becoming so celebrated it inspired several Hollywood movies and set the course for China s two-decade civil war.
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- Bookseller
- Books On The Boulevard (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 591
- Title
- The Peking Express: The Bandits Who Stole a Train, Stunned the West, and Broke the Republic of China ~ SIGNED
- Author
- Zimmerman, James M
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Hardcover Signed First
- ISBN 10
- 1541701704
- ISBN 13
- 9781541701700
- Publisher
- PublicAffairs
- Date Published
- 2023
- Keywords
- 20th century; Asia; China; Chinese; Heists & Robberies; Hijacking of trains; History; Non-Fiction; Railroads; Transportation; True Crime, signed, collectible, autographed
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