The truth about Mao.(Mao: The Unknown Story)(Book review)

From: National Observer - Australia and World Affairs | Date: June 22, 2006| Author: | Copyright information

To much fanfare and international recognition, Jung Chang, author of the all-time best selling non-fiction work Wild Swans, has co-authored with her British husband Jon Halliday a definitive history of Mao Zedong. The book has already been flagged as the best political history published this century and is certainly already a best-seller. In spite of the fact that other detailed books have been written on the brutality of Mao, Mao: The Unknown Story (published by Jonathan Cape) may claim to be the definite corrective on just exactly how monstrous a tyrant Mao was. Relentless in ...

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