Fragile Cargo: China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City by Adam Brookes

Fragile Cargo: China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City

Adam Brookes

384 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history adventurous informative mysterious medium-paced
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The gripping true story of the intrepid curators who saved China's finest art from the ravages of the Sino-Japanese War and World War II. Spring 1933. The silent courtyards and palaces of Peking's Forbidden City are tense with fear and expectatio...

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