The Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow

Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow is a 1937 historical classic and firsthand journalistic account that provided the Western world with its first authorized look at the Chinese Communist Party and an autobiography of Mao Zedong. Breaking through the Nationalist government's news blockade in 1936, Snow risked traveling to the forbidden northwestern Communist territory, where he lived among the revolutionaries and interviewed key figures. The resulting bestseller brilliantly captured the gritty reality and motivations of the Red Army, chronicled the epic hardships of the Long March, and fundamentally shaped international perceptions of the Chinese revolution for generations.