Crossing the grasslands in Northern Sichuan - actually a very dangererous area of marshes - took the Communists a week in August 1935. It is said that this stage of the Long March cost most lives, from exhaustion and malnutrition or by drowning.
Nr. 6 of the poster set An arduous journey.
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