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Genre/Form: | History |
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Named Person: | Léopold, King of the Belgians; E D Morel; Léopold, King of the Belgians; E D Morel |
Material Type: | Document |
Document Type: | Book, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Adam Hochschild |
ISBN: | 9781529014617 1529014611 |
OCLC Number: | 1106074741 |
Awards: | Winner of Duff Cooper Prize 2000 (UK) |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Responsibility: | Adam Hochschild. |
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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 *
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