Mao The Unknown Story

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‘The first great political biography of the twenty-first century’ -FRANK JOHNSON, SPECTATOR

‘This is a bombshell of a book… The authors shred the myths on which Mao’s national and international reputation rested…Jung Chang and Jon Halliday have done this extraordinary country a huge service with this book, which will one day be read as widely inside 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

Jung Chang and Jon Halliday’s meticulously researched biography explodes every unquestioned truth… An extraordinary exercise in iconoclasm that is likely to play its own part in changing history’ –ISABEL HILTON, NEW STATESMAN

‘Awesome yet immensely readable’ –RUTH RENDELEEU DIAN