Content introduction: The book is divided into five parts: "Thirty Years of Essays", "From the Nanchang Uprising to the Central Revolutionary Base of Northern Shaanxi", "The Great Anti-Japanese War" and "Victory of the Liberation War". During the 1950s and 1960s, when the author participated in editing the large-scale essay competition "A Spark Starts a Prairie Fire", he had in-depth interactions with party and military leaders such as Xu Xiangqian, Nie Rongzhen, Xu Shiyou, Liu Ruilong, and Hong Xuezhi. This book uses a large number of vivid and detailed materials to trace every detail of this essay competition, and through the story behind the essay, it reproduces the fighting spirit and noble sentiments of the older generation of communists who sacrificed their blood and lives for national liberation, and reflects from one side the magnificent and magnificent journey of the Chinese people to win the victory of the democratic revolution.
About the author: Zhu Dongsheng, former president of the People's Liberation Army Publishing House, joined the army at the age of 1968 and has been engaged in research on party history and military history for a long time. Edited the memoir "Historical Review" of Marshal Xu Xiangqian; founded the magazine "People's Liberation Army Life"; led the filming of the TV series "The Extending Great Wall". He is the author of "Comparative Aesthetics of Eastern and Western Human Settlements - Europe, Hangzhou, Suzhou", "On the Aggressive War of Japanese Militarism" and other works.
Media comments: The detailed reproduction of the generosity and tragic life and death of the revolutionary ancestors; the vivid description of the noble feelings and innocence of the great leader and revolutionary general; the personal witness of the PLA's huge military publishing project spanning 30 years!
