Philip Short (born 17 April 1945) is a British journalist and author.
He was born in
Bristol
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. He studied at
Queens' College, Cambridge
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. After graduation, he spent from 1967 to 1973 as a freelance journalist, first in
Malawi
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, then in
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
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. He then joined the
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as a foreign correspondent. He worked there for 25 years. He is the author of several books, among them the biographies of
.
He presented a TV documentary on Mao Zedong entitled "Mao's Bloody Revolution Revealed" on the UK terrestrial station
in May 2007.
* ''The Dragon and the Bear: Inside China and Russia Today (1982).''
* ''Mao: A Life'' (1999).
* ''Pol Pot: History of a Nightmare'' (2005). Published in the U.S. as ''Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare'' (2006).
* ''Mitterrand: A Study in Ambiguity'' (2013). Published in the U.S. as ''A Taste for Intrigue: The Multiple Lives of François Mitterrand'' (2014).
* ''Mao: The Man Who Made China'' (2017).
* ''Putin: His Life and Times.'' Published in the U.S. as ''Putin'' (2022).