Philip Short

The definitive portrait of Pol Pot, the enigmatic man behind the most terrifying regime of modern times Meer

Aesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into the modern world. Meer

The greatest biography yet written on the man who made China Meer