Principal women of this account of the Long March
The march to the West. A flowering ; The struggle ; The chosen : early October 1934 ; Leaving Jianxi : October 1934 ; No tears : October 1934 ; Into Hunan and Guangdong : October-November 1934 ; Xiang River debacle : November 25-December 1, 1934
Crossing southern China. Thundergod Cliff : December 1934 ; Into Guizhou : December 1934 ; Love, power, and revolution in Zunyi : January 1935 ; Little devils : January 1935 ; A new year : January-February 1935 ; Where the Han are unwelcome : March-April 1935 ; Dead child : April-May 1935
North through Sichuan. Two raging rivers : May 1935 ; Hitting the roof : June 1935 ; A meeting of armies : mid-June 1935 ; Through the Tibetan Snowies : July-August 1935 ; Beyond the Snowies : August 1935 ; The Caodi : August 1935
Home stretch. Life after death : September 1935 ; A five-hundred-mile sprint : September-October 1935 ; The Fourth Army hunkers down : October 1935-February 1936 ; A union of forces : November 1935-October 1936 ; In the throat : October-December 1936 ; The destruction of the West Route Army : January-March 1937 ; Prisoners of the Ma : April-November 1937.
