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Taking an enforced hiatus due to a broken shoulder making reading this hefty hardback difficult. So far excellent biography of Mao intertwined with an in depth account of the Chinese revolution

I won't be finishing this one. Zubock will present some uncomfortable truths for western audiences (operation unthinkable, even though it is brushed over) but in a way that still affirms western moral superiority the supposed inherent wickedness of communism. Critical readers would be better jumping directly to something like Michael Parenti's Blackshirts and Reds.