When the iron bird flies: China's secret war in Tibet

The storm rising in the mountains

Rebellion sparked in the year of the Fire Monkey

Lithang : the fallen Buddha of the future

Chatreng : the broken mala

Nyarong : the wrath of the dragoness

The first bend in the Yellow River

Tibet : occupation and "reform"

The Chamdo pilot project and "six years without change"

Diplomatic clashes : Zhou Enlai, Nehru and the Dalai Lama

Obscure events in 1957

Gunshots in the Golok grasslands

The Yellow River massacre

Yulshul in flames

Bloodbath at Drongthil Gulch

The crossed-sword banner at Drigu Lake

The 1958 "religious reform movement"

Lhasa, the last hope

"Lhasa is no more!"

The battle of Lhoka

From Namtso to Mitikha

Encircling the plateau in the depths of winter

The men who fell from the sky

Chamdo's fight to the death

The life-or-death journey

When the iron horse raced across the plateau.