- Published: 1 September 2009
- ISBN: 9780099507376
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 992
- RRP: $29.99
Mao: The Unknown Story
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- Published: 1 September 2009
- ISBN: 9780099507376
- Imprint: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 992
- RRP: $29.99
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
Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times
What Chang and Halliday have done is immense and surpasses, as a biography, all that has gone before
Jonathan Mirsky, Independent
The detail and documentation are awesome. The story that they tell, mesmerising in it's horror, is 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
This is a bombshell of a book
Chris Patten, The Times
This book's strength is [Chang and Halliday's] understanding of the importance of bringing the human, or inhuman, alive in Mao's story. This, they do brilliantly
Richard McGregor, Financial Times