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Size: 9x6x2; First edition with full number line. Binding is tight, sturdy,

Size: 9x6x2; First edition with full number line. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square. Exterior and jacket look great, shelfwear is very minor. Text is also very good and interior is free of markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xvii, [3], 379, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes.

Sewn binding. Paper over boards. xvii, [3], 379, [1] p. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. The author is a journalist, long associated with Time, Inc., and a historian. Morris Abraham "Two-Gun" Cohen (1887-1970) was a British and Canadian adventurer of Jewish origin who became aide-de-camp to Sun Yat-sen and a major-general in the Chinese National Revolutionary Army. When the Japanese invaded China in 1937, Cohen eagerly joined the fight. He rounded up weapons for the Chinese and even did work for the British intelligence agency, Special Operations Executive (SOE). Cohen proved that the Japanese were using poison gas on the Chinese. Cohen was in Hong Kong when the Japanese attacked in December 1941. He placed Soong Ching-ling and her sister Ai-ling onto one of the last planes out of the British colony. When Hong Kong fell, the Japanese tossed him into Stanley Prison Camp. There he languished until he was part of a rare prisoner exchange in late 1943. Derived from a Kirkus review: Soon after the turn of the century a Jewish Cockney adventurer arrived in Canada. How he evolved into a general in the Chinese Republican Army, is carefully recounted by Levy, a reporter for Time magazine, in his debut biography. After service in the Great War, through force of personality and a loud voice, he became something of a community leader, especially among the beleaguered Chinese of the Canadian West. His affinity for the underdog soon made him their sole Caucasian lodge brother and eventually brought him to the attention of the father of the Chinese Republic, Sun Yat-sen. Cohen became a bodyguard to the great man and, later, factotum to his widow, the redoubtable Soong. Levy attempts to set the record straight after exhaustive research and interviews on three continents. The man he brings to life isn't Lawrence of Arabia. He is Cohen of China. A fascinating tale of the life of a unique Old China Hand, intertwined with the story of modern China.