- Published: 5 July 2022
- ISBN: 9781847923387
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 848
- RRP: $45.00
Putin
The new and definitive biography
- Published: 5 July 2022
- ISBN: 9781847923387
- Imprint: Bodley Head
- Format: Trade Paperback
- Pages: 848
- RRP: $45.00
(Praise for Philip Short on Pot Pot): 'A superb, chilling, yet human portrait of a monster'
Simon Sebag Montefiore
(Praise for Philip Short on Pot Pot): 'A superb, chilling, yet human portrait of a monster'
Simon Sebag Montefiore
(Praise for Philip Short on Pot Pot): 'Extraordinary and brilliant'
The Scotsman
(Praise for Philip Short on Pot Pot): 'Extraordinary and brilliant'
The Scotsman
(Praise for Philip Short on Mao): 'A beautifully written, grippingly readable biography... A formidable piece of research'
John Simpson, Sunday Telegraph
(Praise for Philip Short on Mao): 'A beautifully written, grippingly readable biography... A formidable piece of research'
John Simpson, Sunday Telegraph
(Praise for Philip Short on Mitterand): 'A stunningly detailed investigation of a monumental political character'
The Independent
(Praise for Philip Short on Mitterand): 'A stunningly detailed investigation of a monumental political character'
The Independent
(Praise for Philip Short on Mitterand): 'Deeply researched and marvellously readable'
Sunday Times
(Praise for Philip Short on Mitterand): 'Deeply researched and marvellously readable'
Sunday Times
(Praise for Philip Short on Mao): 'It is everything one could hope for: magisterial, beautifully written... and rich in material'
Guardian
(Praise for Philip Short on Mao): 'It is everything one could hope for: magisterial, beautifully written... and rich in material'
Guardian
Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin's personality, ideas, power and the threat he has come to pose to world peace should read this outstanding biography
Ian Kershaw
Anyone wanting to learn more about Putin's personality, ideas, power and the threat he has come to pose to world peace should read this outstanding biography
Ian Kershaw
Magisterial... based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources.
Guardian
Magisterial... based on access to a Who's Who of senior politicians, diplomats and intelligence sources.
Guardian
Exhaustively researched... as a chronicle of Putin's public doings, the book is near faultless... [with] some sharply worded insights
The Times
[A] meticulous biography... this book [is] a perfect mirror to its subject
Observer
A valuable piece of work... there are a number of fascinating insights into Putin that can be mined from the massive array of facts on offer
Daily Telegraph
A masterly portrait of one of the most calculating and impenetrable individuals on the world stage
Irish Independent