Mao The Unknown Story by Jung Chang & Jon Halliday

The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader every written Mao The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research and on interviews with many of Maos close circle in China who have never talked before and with virtually everyone outside China who had significant dealings with him. It is full of startling revelations exploding the myth of the Long March and showing a completely unknown Mao he was not driven by idealism or ideology his intimate and intricate relationship with Stalin went b