The tyrants
Foss, Clive2006
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This volume presents 50 chilling portraits of the despots whose iron-fisted rule left an indelible mark on the history of the world. It presents a chronology of the moments in history when the principles of government and law were corrupted by the vanityof the ambitious and unscrupulous.
Main title:
The tyrants / Clive Foss.
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Publisher:
London : Quercus, 2006.
Collation:
208 p. : ill., ports. ; 28 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
1905204795
Language:
English
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XERXES DIONYSIUS OF SICILY QIN SHI HUANG CAESAR, Julius HEROD THE GREAT CALIGULA NERO COMMODUS JUSTINIAN ZETIAN, Wu AL-HAKIM KING JOHN KHAN, Genghis TUGHLAK, Muhammad TAMERLANE VLAD THE IMPALER BORGIA, Cesare SELIM THE GRIM IVAN THE TERRIBLE BLOODY MARY CROMWELL, Oliver ROBESPIERRE, Maximilien NAPOLEON DE FRANCIA, Jose Rodriguez ZULU, Shaka MUTESA I OF BUGANDA LOPEZ, Francisco Solano LEOPOLD II ABDUL HAMID II LENIN, Vladimir MUSSOLINI, Benito STALIN, Josef TRUJILLO, Rafael HITLER, Adolf FRANCO, FranciscoKIM IL SUNG PERON, Juan ZEDONG, Mao SUKARNO PAPA DOC DUVALIER CEAUSESCU, Nicolae MOBUTU, Joseph-Desire BOKASSA, Jean-Bedel AL-QADDAFI, Muammar AMIN, Idi PINOCHET, Augusto POT, Pol KHOMEINI, Ayatollah HUSSEIN, Suddam MILOSEVIC, Slobodan
BRN:
1742056
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