Huw Evans’s Reviews > Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62 > Status Update

I had to stop reading this for a while. It is such a remorseless read, full of violence, deprivation, torture and brutality. Knowing that it is a true story of a crass national error makes it harder to read, but it is worth every page.

This is an astonishing read, simply because of the numbers of people involved

Human driven catastrophe on an unimaginable scale. Compelling

This is such a depressingly scary read.

ADherence to an ideal always has its cost. When that ideal is held by those at the top, millions pay the cost.

This book is emotionally terrifying, that one man had so much power over the system that he would allow such things to continue rather than admit to being wrong