Mao: A Life - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0805066381 ISBN 13 : 9780805066388

Synopsis

Book by Short Philip

A propos du livre

Revue de presse

'Beautifully written, grippingly readable ... A formidable piece of research' - Independent; 'Wonderfully readable ... He tells the story superbly ... It is an excellent account' - Guardian; 'Impressive and important' - Independent on Sunday; 'Philip Short's excellent Mao: A Life deserves to be the standard history. It is everything one could hope for: magisterial, beautifully written, excellently printed, and rich in material --- John Simpson, Sunday Telegraph

'Well researched, rich in detail, and beautifully written ... An illuminating and accessible portrait' --- Conor O'Clery, The Irish Times

'It will be a long time ... before there is a Chinese biography of Mao this is as complete and unflinching as ...Mr Short's. The scenes behind the key moments in Mao's life are vividly painted, in a way only a journalist well travelled in China could do.' --- Sunday Times

Présentation de l'éditeur

One of the great figures of the twentieth century, Chairman Mao looms irrepressibly over the economic rise of China. Mao Zedong was the leader of a revolution, a communist who lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, an aggressive and distrustful leader, and a man responsible for more civilian deaths than perhaps any other historical figure. Now, four decades after Mao's death, acclaimed biographer Philip Short presents a fully updated and revised edition of his ground-breaking and masterly biography. Vivid, uncompromising and unflinching, Short presents in one-volume the man behind the propaganda - his family, his beliefs and his horrors. In doing so he shows us both the human being Mao was, and the monster he became.

Détails de l'édition

• Date d'édition: 1709
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0805066381
• ISBN 13: 9780805066388
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 782
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible