Ready to launch your business? Get started with the commerce platform made for entrepreneurs.

Shopify is specially designed to help you start, run and grow your business with easy, customizable themes that let you build your brand,

marketing tools that get your products out there. Integrated shipping solutions that actually save you time.

From startups to scaleups, online, in-person and on the go.

Shopify is made for entrepreneurs like you.

Sign up for your $1 a month trial at Shopify.com slash setup.

This History Extra podcast is brought to you by Guide Dogs.

This year marks the 95th anniversary of the first work in guide dog partnerships in the UK. And now, in the 21st century, the work of such animals is as important as ever.

Every day, 250 people start to lose their sight in the UK,

and each year, more than 1,300 puppies start their journey to become guide dogs. Guide dogs is looking for people

to embark on this journey too by sponsoring a guide dog puppy. The sponsor a puppy scheme is more

than a donation. You'll get updates, photos and videos, and most importantly, the pride of knowing

that you've helped change the life of someone with sight loss.

Sponsor a life-changing guide dog puppy now for less than £2 a week.

Search sponsor a guide dog puppy or visit guidedogs.org.org.

forward slash puppy and be part of a story you'll be proud to share.

Thank you. slash puppy, and be part of a story you'll be proud to share. How did a tiny band of guerrillas come to rule a quarter of humanity?

And was the outcome of the Chinese Civil War really the heroic popular uprising that the

People's Republic portrays. In this episode of

the History Extra podcast, Danny Bird speaks to Frank Dakota about the surprising reality behind the

rise of the Communist Party of China, from its marginal beginnings in the 1920s and the myth of

the long march to the decisive role of Stalin and the Soviet invasion of Manchuria in 1945.

...