Books by Frank Dikötter
Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62
by Frank Dikötter
🏆 Winner of the 2011 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction
Dikotter's unflinching account of Mao Zedong's disastrous 'Great Leap Forward,' his attempt to overtake the dominance of the West in a space of a few years, describes in heartbreaking detail and with groundbreaking research the circumstances that led to more than 45 million Chinese people being worked, starved or beaten to death between the years of 1958 and 1962.
Interviews where books by Frank Dikötter were recommended
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Question 7
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Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World
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Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne
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Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
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One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
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The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper
by Hallie Rubenhold
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
Baillie Gifford Prize-Winning Nonfiction Books
It's a prize that has been awarded annually since 1999 to a book that speaks to an important issue but is also highly readable. Below you'll find all the winners of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the UK's most prestigious non-fiction book award—from a gripping account of a turning point in World War II to a terrifying forest fire in an oil town in Canada.
