‘Fast paced and jammed with racy details’ – New York Times Book Review  The Soong Dynasty is the first full behind-the-scenes account of the extraordinary Soong family whose power and wealth dominated China and American policy towards Asia in the Twentieth Century.   It is an extraordinary work of historical detection which traces the family’s roots from the middle of the last century and their explosive rise thereafter.  Descendants of a runaway, they grew up in America under the protection of the Methodist church and returned to their homeland to make a fortune selling Western bibles.  The Soong Family became the principal rulers of China during the first half of the Twentieth Century.   In The Soong Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave describes for the first time the intricate and fascinating rise to power of Charlie Soong and his children, whom he married to some of China’s most powerful men to create a network of power and influence which was to last for over fifty years.  It is a classic tale of power, money, corruption and greed with elements of tragedy and comedy.  Praise for The Soong Dynasty:   ‘Seagrave knows China, and has caught the atmosphere of that weird, melancholy place … he has shed light into so many dark places, and turned a difficult piece of history into an engrossing narrative’ - Daily Telegraph  ‘Seagrave s marathon probe includes much new evidence … It is an important segment of twentieth century world history … People should therefore be encouraged to read it’ - Dervla Murphy, Irish Times  ‘The Soong Dynasty brings much pungent material to light … [it is] a story unraveled with fluency and flair’ - Time  ‘A gripping book. Seagrave has tackled a mighty subject with resourcefulness and spirit’ - Washington Post  ‘Compulsively readable’ – International Herald Tribune  ‘Mr Seagrave is a fine investigative reporter — digging up information from a multitude of sources, much of it original, and piecing together a gripping account of epochal events’ – Wall Street Journal  Sterling Seagrave, who grew up on the China-Burma border in the 1940s (his father was Dr Gordon Seagrave, author of Burma Surgeon), is the author of Yellow Rain, The Marcos Dynasty, Dragon Lady, and Lords of the Rim and has written many articles for major newspapers and magazines. In preparing The Soong Dynasty, he drew on half a lifetime in Asia and on many sources, including the files of Time Inc., the National Archives, many individuals, and the FBI, to produce a riveting and revealing narrative of major historical importance supplemented with much new material. He lives in Europe.

The Soong Dynasty

History

sterling-seagrave

Asia

SIDGWICK JACKSON

Yellow Rain: Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare (Abacus Books)

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

SPHERE

An inside account of the Soong family, whose wealth and power have dominated China and U.S.-Asia policy in the 20th century.

New English Library Ltd.

An examination of the complex web of Chinese operations dominating the Far East's booming economies is part economic analysis, part history, and part cautionary tale that encompasses murder, betrayal, corruption, and syndicates and features kingmakers, emperors, generals, spies, and pirates.

Lords of the Rim

Business & Money

Economics

Corgi Adult

Lords of the Rim, the Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese

BANTAM PRESS

The Bush Pilots (The Epic of Flight)

Time-Life Books, Inc.

The covert history of Yamashita's gold - how Washington secretly recovered it to set up giant Cold War slush funds and manipulate foreign governments.

Gold warriors: the covert history of Yamashita's gold - how Washington secretly recovered it to set up giant Cold War slush funds and manipulate foreign governments

Bowstring

True life man-hunt thriller set in postwar Manila, where two innocent Americans and an innocent Russian emigre are falsely identified as Communist agents supplying guns and money to Communist rebels in the countryside. All three are captured and put in notorious Bilibad Prison, but manage to escape. Both Americans flee the country, but the Russian emigre is trapped, tortured, and murdered by being thrown out of a helicopter over the South China Sea. A true story, told by bestselling authors Sterling &amp; Peggy Seagrave. The Seagraves have published ten books about crime and corruption in Asia, many of them bestsellers in different languages. Sterling is the fifth generation of an American family living in Asia, was an investigative reporter for The Washington Post, and then contributed to many magazines and newspapers such as TIME, Newsweek, Esquire, Atlantic Monthly, and the Far Eastern Economic Review. Peggy Seagrave worked for the Smithsonian Institution before joining Time-Life Books where she and Sterling worked on a dozen books together before marrying and moving to Europe. They now divide their time between Frace and Southeast Asia.

Red Sky in the Morning: The secret history of two men who got away - and one who didn't.

Biographies & Memoirs

Peggy Seagrave

True Crime

BookSurge Publishing

In 1945, US intelligence officers in Manila discovered that the Japanese had hidden large quantities of gold bullion and other looted treasure in the Philippines. President Truman decided to recover the gold but to keep its riches secret. These, combined with Japanese treasure recovered during the US occupation, and with recovered Nazi loot, would create a worldwide American political action fund to fight communism. This ‘Black Gold’ gave Washington virtually limitless, unaccountable funds, providing an asset base to reinforce the treasuries of America’s allies, to bribe political and military leaders, and to manipulate elections in foreign countries for more than fifty years.

Gold Warriors: America's Secret Recovery of Yamashita's Gold

Americas

Verso

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