PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : TOMBSTONE PB – YANG JISHENG-EDWARD FRIEDMAN-GUO JIAN-STACY MOSHER

"Yang Jisheng s Tombstone is the book that broke the silence on of one of history s most terrible crimes More people died in Mao s Great Famine than in the entire First World War, yet this story has remained largely untold, until now. Still banned in China, Tombstone draws on the author s privileged access to official and unofficial sources to uncover the full human cost of the tragedy, and create an unprecedented work of historical reckoning. A book of great importance Jung Chang, author of Wild Swans The first proper history of China s great famine … So thorough is his documentation that some are already calling Yang ""China s Solzhenitsyn"" Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag: A History"