Special District: Harbin: Book 2
Autor Tim Stickelen Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 mar 2023
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I am a Seattle native and earned a BA in History at the University of Washington. After a career in aerospace I returned to my first love of history, where I have been particularly drawn to the region of Manchuria. In the Twentieth Century it was fought over by the Russians, Chinese, Japanese, and Western powers. The city of Harbin was a microcosm of that struggle where White Russian refugees and Soviet intrigues vied with rising Chinese nationalism and Japanese imperialism for control. Reading their stories of survival from those tumultuous and divisive times helped me to put our own current state of politics into perspective. Along the way I discovered that writing historical fiction was a way of sharing my own love of history with others. The story-telling allows one to be immersed in the past in ways that ordinary non-fiction history cannot. So naturally my first book of a murder mystery series takes place in 1929 in that crossroad city of Harbin. Because the historical aspect of my story-telling is important to me, I strive to be as accurate to the real past as possible. That includes research of available academic books and articles on Manchuria and Harbin, and even acquiring travel guides, magazines, and maps from the time period.