Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom. China, The West and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War, Paperback - Stephen R. Platt

Stephen R. Platt's Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom tells the dramatic and disastrous story of the Taiping Rebellion: the bloodiest civil war in hist...

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