- Published: 30 August 2022
- ISBN: 9781784743802
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $40.00
Fragile Cargo
China's Wartime Race to Save the Treasures of the Forbidden City
- Published: 30 August 2022
- ISBN: 9781784743802
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 384
- RRP: $40.00
Adam Brookes has an eye for a great story and knows how to tell it. Fragile Cargo more than merits his painstaking research and cannot fail to delight both the China specialist and the general reader. I enjoyed it enormously
John Keay
A compelling and untold story of art, war and adventure. This is an extraordinary odyssey of the imperial treasures of the Forbidden City, protected by heroic and remarkable curators, across the mountains, rivers and battlefields of wartime China. Superb
Simon Sebag-Montefiore
A riveting read... With his meticulously researched and detailed writing, Adam Brookes takes us on a compelling journey through this extraordinary chapter of Chinese history. Fragile Cargo reads like a thriller, in which the priceless art is the protagonist whose fate we come to agonise over. Gripping stuff
Alexi Kaye Campbell, writer of feature film WOMAN IN GOLD