The story of Baron von Ungern is wild - there are so many things in here that I had a hard time with believing that were the bibliography not so through, I would think things were exaggerated. Mr. Palmer had a hard job in front of him and I think he did a good job. It's always hard to do a history o...
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BLURB: When an earthquake of historic magnitude leveled the industrial city of Tangshan in the summer of 1976, killing more than a half-million people, China was already gripped by widespread social unrest. As Mao lay on his deathbed, the public mourned the death of popular premier Zhou Enlai. Anger...
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