King Leopold's Ghost by Adam Hochschild
A riveting and highly readable account of the Congo massacre, peopled by callous monarchs, corrupt adventurers and a handful of genuine heroes.
All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel -- Robert Harris
A history like none other. . an amazing book -- Tariq Ali * Financial Times *
A history like none other. . an amazing book -- Tariq Ali * Financial Times *
Adam Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco with his wife. He is the author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939 and King Leopold’s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa which won the Duff Cooper Prize in the UK, the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781509882205 |
| ISBN 10 | 1509882200 |
| Title | King Leopold's Ghost |
| Author | Adam Hochschild |
| Series | Picador Classic |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2019-03-07 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Prizes | Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 2000 (UK) |
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