How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, IDI Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks by Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Witold Szabłowski

How to Feed a Dictator: Saddam Hussein, IDI Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

Antonia Lloyd-Jones, Witold Szabłowski with Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator)

288 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history politics funny informative slow-paced

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What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one particular cow? Traveling across four continents, from the ruins of Iraq to the savannahs o...

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