Stephen R. Platt Boeken

Stephen R. Platt, a Yale PhD and Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, explores significant historical themes in his works. His previous book, Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom, garnered the prestigious Cundill History Prize in 2012, highlighting his expertise and contribution to historical scholarship.

This narrative history of China's nineteenth-century Taiping Rebellion (which cost some twenty million lives) brims with unforgettable characters and vivid re-creations of massive and sometimes gruesome battles--a riveting, both sweeping and intimate portrait of the largest civil war in history