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Tyrants : history's 100 most evil despots & dictators / Nigel Cawthorne.

by Cawthorne, Nigel, 1951-

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Arcturus, 2012.

Dictators -- History -- Biography.

Dictators -- History.

Despotism -- History.

Heads of state -- Biography.

Kings and rulers -- History.

Kings and rulers -- Biography.

208 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.

First edition published in 2004.

Ancient world (Assyria, Athens, Judaea, Rome, Huns) -- Middle ages (Mongols, Samarkand, Liman, Spain, Wallachia, Incas, Actecs, Rngland, France, Russia, Japan, India) -- Napoleonic era (Russia, France, Paraguay, Ethiopia, Belgium, Buganda) -- Modern world (Mexico, China, Germany, Argentina, USSR, Italy, Germany, Spain, Cuba, Indonesia, Haiti, Albania, North Korea, Chile, Philippines, Romania, Central African Republic, Uganda, Cimbabwe, Cuba, Guatemala, Cambodia, Congo, Ethopia, Iraq, Serbia, Chad, Libya, Liberia).

From Herod the Great to Adolf Hitler, this book examines history's most infamous despots and tells in vivid detail the story of the lives they led, their climb to power, and the destruction and sorrow they left in their wake.

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