James Palmer lives in Beijing. He has interviewed many survivors of the Tangshan earthquake and of the Communist Party struggles of that crucial year.
His books include
The Bloody White Baron, which was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2008, and
The Death of Mao, which John Simpson called 'The best account of Mao's last year that we have.'
Roman Ungern von Sternberg was a Baltic aristocrat, a violent, headstrong youth posted to the wilds of Siberia and Mongolia before the First World War. After the Bolshevik Revolution, the Baron - now in command of a lethally effective rabble of cavalrymen - conquered Mongolia, the...
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