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Jon Halliday, Jung Chang: Mao: The Unknown Story (Paperback, 2006, Anchor) 4 stars

Mao: The Unknown Story is a 2005 biography of Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (1893–1976) …

Review of 'Mao: The Unknown Story' on 'Goodreads'

2 stars

How to grab power as a hypocrite, recklessly. The commentary reveals the authors spent many years researching and talking to witnesses. However the portrait of Mao is pervasively one of incompetence, which does not explain how he could influence events as he did.
This text is a krass, and inundating account of 70 million people dying in peace time. Colossal ignorance and misgovernment are simply mind boggling.

I enjoyed Jung Chang's autobiographical book wild swans. This one was much more laborious to finish. However I come away knowing mich more about the 20th century and it's players.

Joe Miller, Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci: Projekt Lightspeed (Hardcover, 2021, Rowohlt Verlag GmbH) 5 stars

Review of 'Projekt Lightspeed' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

Some scientists check the current articles and when they read: new zoonosis, transmissible between humans via air combined with infectiousness while having no symptoms, they take on themselves enormous risks to act. This story is a true fairytale about two entrepreneurs and scientists contributing greatly to establish innovative technologies, providing hope for all of us.

Well everyone enjoys a good success story, this also sheds light on the complexities and probability of failure in the biotechnology sector.