KHRUSHCHEV – WILLIAM TAUBMAN

William Taubman s brilliant, Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of one of the key figures of the Soviet Union is a study in contrasts — how the boy from a peasant background rose to the heights of power; how a single-minded, ambitious political player survived twenty years under Stalin; how he opened up to the West after Stalin s death and yet brought the world close to oblivion in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Hugely acclaimed on hardback publication, and winner of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, this is a magisterial work of political biography and a riveting insight into one of the giants of twentieth-century history. It is likely to remain the standard work for years to come.