The Generalissimo

The Generalissimo

By
Jay Taylor
Jay Taylor
2009 • 737 pages

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81 books

Asia

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Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
Hun Sen’s Cambodia
China's Last Empire
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Rising Sun

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155 books

Biography

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zach
Henry Clay
Eisenhower: in War and Peace
Grant
On the Move: A Life
Chronicles: Volume One
Wishful Drinking
Hallelujah Anyway: Rediscovering Mercy

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91 books

Nonfiction

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José Gonçalves
Dark Alliance
The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, books I-II
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich
Lords of Finance
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II
Mao
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer

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324 books

China

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JSnufkin
China at War: Triumph and Tragedy in the Emergence of the New China, 1937-1952
Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State
Zhou Enlai
Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life
2050 China: Becoming a Great Modern Socialist Country
China's Future

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12 books

Abandoned

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The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire
The Man in the High Castle
It Can't Happen Here
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Demons
Meditations
The Colour of Magic