Mao: The Unknown Story - Hardcover

Chang, Jung; Halliday, Jon

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ISBN 10: 1856868435 ISBN 13: 9781856868433

Publisher: Random House Audiobooks, 2005

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The most authoritative life of Mao ever, by the bestselling author of "Wild Swans" and her husband. Based on a decade of research, this is the most authoritative life of Mao ever written. It is full of startling revelations, exploding the myth of the Long March, and showing a completely unknown Mao. After Mao conquered China in 1949, his secret goal was to dominate the world. In chasing this dream he caused the deaths of 38 million people in the greatest famine in history. In all, 70 million Chinese perished under Mao's rule - in peacetime. Combining meticulous history with the story-telling style of Jung Chang's novel, "Wild Swans", this biography makes immediate Mao's roller-coaster life. The reader enters the shadowy chambers of Mao's court, and eavesdrops on the drama in its hidden recesses. Mao's character and the enormity of his behaviour towards his wives, mistresses and children are unveiled for the first time.

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Jung Chang the author of Wild Swans biography of the leader of China, Mao

Review:

"The first great political biography of the twenty-first century" (Frank Johnson Spectator)

"This is a bombshell of a book... Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have done this extraordinary country a huge service with this book, which will one day be read as widely within China as it will deservedly be in the outside world" (Chris Patten The Times)

"Chang and Halliday cast new and revealing light on nearly every episode in Mao's tumultuous life... Magnificent... It is a stupendous work" (Michael Yahuda Guardian)

"Devastating... Awesome... Mesmerising... The most powerful, compelling and revealing political biography of modern times. Few books are destined to change history, but this one will" (George Walden Daily Mail)

"A triumph. It is a mesmerising portrait of tyranny, degeneracy, mass murder and promiscuity, a barrage of revisionist bombshells, and a superb piece of research. This is the first intimate, political biography of the greatest monster of them all" (Simon Sebag Montefiore Sunday Times)

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