Abstract:

"Mao Tse-tung with China's Communist First Front Army flees the forces of the his arch enemy, the Nationalist leader Chiang Kai Shek. Mao and his one thousand strong peasant army battle against the Nationalists and nature itself, fleeing over 6000 miles through 12 provinces over 18 mountain ranges and across 24 rivers in an epic test of human endurance. Only six thousand men survive but Mao lives to become the undisputed father of Chinese Communism and 14 years after his epic journey becomes Chairman of the People's Republic of China."