Dictators Av Frank Dikotter

<b>_______________</b><b>A <i>SPECTATOR </i>BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><b>¿A revolutionary book¿ </b>- <i>Sunday Times</i><b>¿A pulsating account that makes clear how important it is to look...

First published in 1992, The Discourse of Race in Modern China rapidly became a classic, showing for the first time on the basis of detailed evidence how and why racial categorisation be- came so widespread in China. After the country''s devastating...

<P>The power of Frank Dik¿tter''s ground-breaking work on the disaster that followed China''s attempted ¿Great Leap Forward¿ lies not in the detail of his evidence (though that shows that Mao''s fumbled attempt at...

Half a century after their deaths, the dictatorships of Stalin and Hitler still cast a long and terrible shadow over the modern world. They were the most destructive and lethal regimes in history, murdering millions. They fought the largest and costliest...