Private Life Of Chairman Mao. The Memoirs of Mao's Personal Physician, Paperback - Zhisui Li

For 22 years, Dr Zhisui Li was Mao Tse-tung's personal physician, confidant and companion. In this biography Li provides insights into social and p...

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Reducere. Mao Zedong (also known as Mao Tse-tung) is regarded as one of the most controversial figures in modern world history. Having conquered the country,...

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Enigmatic, Eminence grise, the 'power behind the throne' - these phrases sum up Zhou Enlai's long and varied, but always pivotal, political career ...

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The memoirs of the Girondist Manon Roland were written in prison and smuggled out to a friend, the botanist Louis Augustin Bosc, who published them...

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Are the Chinese secret services now the most powerful in the world?Publisher: C Hurst & Co Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Roger FaligotTranslator: Natash...

Chairman at the Board is an intimate, funny, and absorbing look at the music business by an insider who has recorded a host of the greatest musical...

It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corr...

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Their struggle, seemingly to the death, was to leave many readers desolate at the loss of Holmes, but was also to lead to his immortality as a lite...

Robert Wringham's family is composed of a dissolute father and brother, a pious mother, and a rival father in the person of a fanatical Calvinist m...

An autobiography of a colourful life

DescriptionIn 1920s Shanghai, Zhou Enlai founded the first Chinese communist spy network, operating in the shadows against nationalists, Western po...

Reducere. This is an English translation of "The Private Life of the Romanoffs", originally published in German and written by Bernhard Stern. Within this vo...

``My mother used to weave aaydans, the Marathi generic term for all things made from bamboo. I find that her act of weaving and my act of writing a...

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Featuring cover artwork and endpapers from the late Howard Hodgkin, this intimate biography of Lord Byron is the first book to explore the poet's e...

A schoolteacher's memoir

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Reducere. An indispensable biography of the world's most famous detective from Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Vincent StarrettIn a boarding house at...

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Breathes new life into Shakespeare's story by establishing fresh interpretations of his baptism; evidence pertaining to his father; his wedding; hi...

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A new edition of the classic novel from 1824, which traces one man's descent into madness and despair. Introduced by Ian Duncan, an acknowledged Ho...

The author of }The January Man{ crosses Britain, visiting its storied cathedrals and considering the history of these buildings, encountering belie...

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Though nothing more than a child, the jollity of these suppers was a great source of pleasure to me. I was obliged to leave the table before desser...

Memoir by a legendary Mossad spymaster, described as Israel's James Bond.Publisher: Greenhill BooksAuthor(s): Rafi EitanIllustration(s): 16 pages o...

Reducere. The ordeals of two famous African Americans This special Leonaur edition combines the account of Harriet Ann Jacobs with that of Frederick Douglass...