The context of the story is the Long March, a "desperate" military maneuver begun in October 1934 when Mao Zedong's Red Army (the early Chinese Communist Party) were surrounded by General Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese Nationalist soldiers. Writing in the Southeast Asia Review, critic Daniel Metraux wrote: " Unbound is a must-read for any student of modern Chinese history and ranks with Edgar Snow's Red Star Over China (1939), as one of the classic narratives of the early Chinese Communist Party." Ĭontent Historical context Unbound has been released in hardback, eBook, and audiobook.
As with his previous book, the nonfiction national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara, he also traversed one of the most dangerous portions of the journey on foot, trekking in the Snowy Mountains and on the high-altitude bogs of western Sichuan Province (the deadliest part of the Long March). To research the project, King interviewed the last surviving woman who marched with the First Army, and delved into historical accounts previously untranslated into English. While only 10,000 of the original 86,000 soldiers survived the 4,000 mile trek, all 30 women survived.
It follows the stories of the 30 women who undertook the Long March as part of the Chinese Red Army in 1934. Unbound: A True Story of War, Love, and Survival is a narrative nonfiction book by author Dean King.
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