Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million copies outside mainland china, where they are both banned. But at a celebration immediately afterwards, on 2 june, all twentytwo were not only alive and well, they each received a lenin suit, a fountain pen, a bowl and a pair of chopsticks, not one was even wounded. The untold story of sam walton and walmart, the worlds most powerful retailer full books p. Combining meticulous history with the story telling style of wild swans this biography makes immediate mao s rollercoaster life, as he intrigued and fought every step of the way to force through his unpopular decisions.
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Her books have been translated into more than forty languages and sold more than fifteen million. The unknown story is a 2005 biography of chinese communist leader mao zedong 18931976 written by the wife and husband team of writer jung chang and historian jon halliday, who depict mao as being responsible for more deaths in peacetime than adolf hitler or joseph stalin. The unknown story 1st by chang, jung, halliday, jon isbn. Oct 05, 2011 the most authoritative life of the chinese leader every written, mao.
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