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 What I'm 
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N E W !Mao: the most foul human detritus history has ever produced, uniquely responsible for the deaths of a hundred million of his countrymen
This is the definitive account of the most foul human being ever to have walked the earth.  No other monster comes close - not Stalin, not Lenin, not Hitler, not Pol Pot, not Genghis Khan, not Ivan the Terrible.

The book is meticulously researched, magnificently structured, beautifully written - and drips innocent Chinese blood from almost every one of its 971 riveting pages.

Moa Tse Tung was obsessed with simply killing as many of his countrymen as he could by whatever means in order to maintain the remainder in such a permanent state of terror that the idea of turning on him would never even cross their wretched minds.

He also starved peasants in their hundreds of millions in order to confiscate the food they grew to pay the Soviets for a gargantuan armaments infrastructure.

Most terribly, Mao was absolutely right.  He proved that terror is the most effective way of retaining power.  Too many despots have tried to emulate him, but none with the same single-minded ferocity.

Disgustingly, people name restaurants in his honour

+++++

The original James Bond, and he's real and he's German
English historian
Charles Foley's
fascinating account
of an honourable man who introduced the concept of Special Forces to the German military during World War 2. 

In that role, as Hitler's trusted operative, he recounts much derring-do, such as rescuing Mussolini from mountain top captivity, bluffing the then Hungarian strongman into surrendering, wreaking covert havoc on the Allied invasion of France.

Particularly moving is his account, from the German viewpoint,
of the invasion of the Soviet Union and
the stoic, stolid, suicidal resistance of the Russians.

This page-turner of a book concludes with a forecast of the role of Special Forces in future conflicts, which has turned out to be surprisingly prescient.

It was written in 1954.

+++++

Life in the trenches of the Somme, during the first world war

The purpose of this
500-page novel is to present in graphic detail the horrors of living, fighting and - above all - dying in (and under)
the trenches during
the First World War.

It does so,
both commendably
and shockingly. 
You certainly cannot come away with other than feelings of
deep admiration and sympathy for what those young men endured,
not to mention the distraught families at home, in their tens of thousands, when the dreaded news of their sons' demise arrived.

But the book is spoilt by the introduction of a storyline which is sentimental and distracting.  Much of it is frankly boring. You might enjoy the sex which is detailed and graphic, but it's unnecessary. 

Also, the interminable, repetitive description, going on for over 40 pages, of being
buried alive in a collapsed tunnel,
just ends up
being irritating.

About 200 pages should have been edited out.

+++++

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