Xinhua Headlines: Cherishing the memory of the challenging Long March
(WorldNews China)

BEIJING, July 21 (Xinhua) -- With all the twists, turns and countermarches along the 12,500-km-long journey, the soul-stirring stories of the legendary Long March starting in 1934 have taken on a new lease of life 85 years on. The epochal, varicolored expedition undertaken by the Red Army captured the imaginations of not only the Chinese but also the foreigners who marveled at the victories at countless battles within a hair`s breadth of defeat and the triumph of the human spirit. Their experience was recorded on the pages of the 1936 book `The Restraining Hand` by R.A. Bosshardt, a British missionary who spent 560 days with the Red Army, and Edgar Snow`s `Red Star Over China` published one...