"Maos Großer Hunger: Massenmord und Menschenexperiment in China" von Frank Dikötter ist eine umfassende historische Analyse der verheerenden Auswirkungen des Großen Sprungs nach vorn, einer Kampagne, die zwischen 1958 und 1962 von der...

"Red Dawn Over China: How Communism Conquered a Quarter of Humanity" von Frank Dikötter bietet eine umfassende Analyse der Entstehung und Ausbreitung des Kommunismus in China. Das Buch untersucht die politischen, sozialen und...

Acclaimed by the Daily Mail as 'definitive and harrowing', this is the final volume of 'The People's Trilogy', begun by the Samuel Johnson prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. 'The seminal English language work on the subject' Sunday Times...

A New Statesman, Financial Times and Economist Book of the Year 'Brilliant' NEW STATESMAN, BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'Enlightening and a good read' SPECTATOR 'Moving and perceptive' NEW STATESMAN Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Kim...

_______________ A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look beneath the surface when it comes to any period or region in history -...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China, by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine."The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a...

In "How to Be a Dictator: The Cult of Personality in the Twentieth Century" untersucht der Historiker Frank Dikötter die Rolle von Charisma bei der Schaffung und Aufrechterhaltung totalitärer Regime im 20. Jahrhundert. Der Autor...

'A revolutionary book' Sunday Times 'A pulsating account' Peter Frankopan *A SPECTATOR AND NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR* How did the People's Republic of China transform from a backwater economy in the 1970s into the world superpower...

WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A gripping and masterful portrait of the brutal court of Mao, based on new research but also written with great narrative verve' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'Harrowing and brilliant' Ben Macintyre 'A...

A groundbreaking chronicle of the violent early years of the People's Republic of China by the author of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize-winning Mao's Great Famine. "The Chinese Communist party refers to its victory in 1949 as a...