The concept of emperor in China is intimately associated with that of the dragon. China's dragons, guardians of the throne, are unlike those of the West. They are benign and protective but can turn like terrible emperors on the people. If they do so, it is the fault of the people, not the dragons. They breathe fire and thrash their tail only if betrayed, a convenient concept for an emperor.

The New Emperors: Mao and Deng - A Dual Biography

SALISBURY, HARRISON E.

Biographies & Memoirs

Little,Brown & Co

A narrative and pictorial portrait of the political and artistic upheaval that changed the course of Russian history and culture during the first three decades of the century

Russia in Revolution, 1900-1930

Henry Holt Co.

Disturber of the Peace: Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent

Disturber of the Peace - Memoirs of a Foreign Correspondent

Literature & Fiction

Unwin Hyman Limited London

By retracing the path, interviewing the survivors, and studying the archives, Salisbury chronicles the two-thousand-mile escape march from Chiang Kai-Shek in 1932 that marked the beginning of Chinese communism's rise to power under Mao Zedong

The Long March

History

Americas

Harpercollins

A Time of Change: A Reporter's Tale of Our Time

Recounts Salisbury's experiences as a journalist, providing an insider's views on many key personalities and events of the past three decades

Professionals & Academics

Vietnam Reconsidered covers nearly every facet of the war, including its origins, the impact of print and broadcast journalism, and the war's effects on American veterans and civilians, Vietnamese, and the armed forces. And it does so with a great diversity of authentic, and often contentious, voices. Thoughtful, Informative, provocative, soul-searching, Vietnam Reconsidered is a book rife with memories, insights, fears, visions, and hopes.

Vietnam Reconsidered: Lessons from a War

Harpercollins College Div

The Long March: The Untold Story

McGraw=Hill

The destruction of the Czars which brought about the reign of revolutions from 1905–1917 in Russia looms as the crucial political event of the twentieth century. In little more than a decade the Romanov dynasty was toppled, and its time-honored institutions repudiated. How did it happen? How could Nicholas and Alexandra, the nobility, middle class anarchists—even Lenin himself—not foresee the catastrophic changes that were shaking the empire? Why could nothing be done? And why were the efforts so ineffectual? Black Night, White Snow captures the rich drama of this whole period. With the artistry of a Balzac, Harrison Salisbury exposes the strata of Russian society, with its decedents, prophetic poets, religious fanatics, and newly liberated serfs. From archival sources within the Soviet Union, interviews, and his personal photography collection, he recreates the story as it happened. Hard data on Russia's economy, a first-hand knowledge of the county, and a historian's gift of compression are combined in a fast-paced narrative that reads with the ease of a good novel and the urgency of a newspaper headline.

Black night, white snow: Russia's revolutions 1905-1917

Russia

Cassell

The Nazi siege of Leningrad from 1941 to 1943, during which time the city was cut off from the rest of the world, was one of the most gruesome episodes of World War II. In scale, the tragedy of Leningrad dwarfs even the Warsaw ghetto or Hiroshima. Nearly three million people endured it; just under half of them died, starving or freezing to death, most in the six months from October 1941 to April 1942 when the temperature often stayed at 30 degrees below zero. For twenty-five years the distinguished journalist and historian Harrison Salisbury has assembled material for this story. He has interviewed survivors, sifted through the Russian archives, and drawn on his vast experience as a correspondent in the Soviet Union. What he has discovered and imparted in The 900 Days is an epic narrative of villainy and survival, in which the city had as much to fear from Stalin as from Hitler. He concludes his story with the culminating disaster of the Leningrad Affair, a plot hatched by Stalin three years after the war had ended. Almost every official who had been instrumental in the city's survival was implicated, convicted, and executed. Harrison Salisbury has told this overwhelming story boldly, unforgettably, and definitively.

The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad

Military

Da Capo Press

Considering the global implications of the disaster, Salisbury describes the devastation and ecological and environmental consequences of the 1987 fire in Manchuria that destroyed an area the size of England

Great Black Dragon Fire: A Chinese Inferno

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

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