Mao

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*Mao: The Unknown Story* offers an authoritative and groundbreaking biography of the Chinese leader, based on a decade of research and unprecedented interviews with Mao’s inner circle in China and international associates. The book shatters long-held myths, including the Long March, to reveal a Mao driven not by idealism but by an insatiable hunger for power. It details his intricate ties to Stalin from the 1920s, his willingness to welcome Japanese occupation, and his use of scheming, poisoning, and blackmail. The narrative asserts that after 1949, Mao’s secret ambition was global dominance, a pursuit that led to the deaths of 38 million in the greatest famine in history and a total of over 70 million Chinese under his peacetime rule.