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This book collects poems written by 100 revolutionary martyrs who sacrificed their lives for the Chinese revolution in the 28 years from the founding of the Communist Party of China in 1921 to the founding of New China in 1949. The book is arranged in order of the time of the sacrifice of the martyrs. The authors of the poems include important party leaders such as Li Dazhao, Qu Qiubai, and Yun Daiying, as well as a large number of ordinary young revolutionaries such as Yu Zusheng and Gu Chengshuo.

This book was compiled by the Propaganda and Education Bureau of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, editing and sorting out 32 family letters of anti-Japanese war heroes collected by the National Museum of China, the Chinese People's Revolutionary Military Museum, the Chinese People's Anti-Japanese War Memorial Hall, the Renmin University of China Museum, the Yuhuatai Martyrs Memorial Hall, the Maoshan New Fourth Army Memorial Hall, and the Liaocheng Fu Sinian Exhibition Hall. These family letters of the heroes of the Anti-Japanese War span from 1934 to 1945, and are sorted according to the time when the family letters were written. The authors of the letters home include both officers and soldiers of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army, as well as generals of the National Army; senior officers and ordinary soldiers, showing the great historical picture of the whole nation's resistance to the war and the defense of the country.