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Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race To Save the Treasures of China's Forbidden City
By Brookes, Adam & Leebaert, Derek & Meltzer, Brad & Josh Mensch & Siegal, Nina
- ISBN
- 9781982149291 9781250274694 9781250777263 9780063070653
- Publisher
- Atria St. Martin's Flatiron: Macmillan Ecco
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Reviewed on September 1, 2022 | Prepub Alert
From BBC's Beijing correspondent, Fragile Cargo chronicles efforts by the museum curators of the Forbidden City, home to China's emperor, to evacuate its many treasures as political tensions escalated within the newly formed Republic of China and the Japanese began bombing Shanghai. Truman Book Award winner Leebaert's Unlikely Heroes reexamines four key people—Harry Hopkins, Harold Ickes, F...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
