Tournament of Shadows: The great game and the race for empire in Asia by Brysac, Shareen Blair; Meyer, Karl at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10: 1582430284 - ISBN 13: 9781582430287 - Counterpoint - 1999 - Hardcover
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Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback, and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's
Mildred Harnack is the only U.S. woman ever executed by Hitler's direct order, but a local journalist unearthed her story a decade ago. What does he make of the new book?