8月30日最早介绍中国工农红军长征的书籍，一般读者认为是美国记者埃德加·斯诺的《红星照耀中国》（通译《西行漫记》）。近年来，笔者通过阅读史料发现，最早向外界宣传介绍中国工农红军长征的书籍不是斯诺的《西行漫记》，而是英国人勃沙特著述的《红军长征秘闻录》（原名《 The book on the Red Army’s Long March of the Chinese Workers and Peasants was first introduced on August 30th. The average reader thought that it was American journalist Edgar Snow’s “Red Star Shining on China” (translated by “Walk of the West Bank”). In recent years, the author discovered through reading historical materials that the earliest book to introduce to the outside world the Red Army’s Long March of China’s workers and peasants was not Snow’s “Walking in the West”, but the “Red Army’s Long March Secret Record” written by the British Bosart (formerly known as “