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Dikötter is the author of The People's Trilogy, [6] three books that document the impact of Communist-led China on the lives of ordinary people on the basis of new archival material. [7] The first volume, titled Mao's Great Famine , won the 2011 Samuel Johnson Prize (now called the Baillie Gifford Prize ) for nonfiction , [ 8 ] Britain's most ...
The Tragedy of Liberation: A History of the Chinese Revolution 1945–1957 is a book by University of Hong Kong historian Frank Dikötter.It is the second book in a trilogy about the history of China under Mao Zedong, based primarily on newly opened government archives, as well as on interviews and memoirs.
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62, is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). It was based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and ...
The pristine German college town of Tübingen flourishes today, in stark contrast to its dark past. The southwestern city of 90,000 was once home to Theodor Dannecker, a Nazi captain and one of ...
It was a young Afghan boy, Martz found out later, who detonated 40 pounds of explosives beneath Martz’s squad. He was one of the younger kids who hung around the Marines. Martz had given him books and candy and, even more precious, his fond attention. The boy would tip them off to IEDs and occasionally brought them fresh-baked bread.
Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.