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Monsters: History's most evil men and women by Sebag Montefiore, Simon Paperback
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 1847249515
- EAN
- 9781847249517
- Date of Publication
- 2009-08-06
- Publication Name
- N/A
- Type
- Paperback / softback
- Release Title
- Monsters: History's most evil men and women
- Artist
- Sebag Montefiore, Simon
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
ISBN-10
1847249515
ISBN-13
9781847249517
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038560404
Product Key Features
Book Title
Monsters
Number of Pages
400 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Reference, Expeditions & Discoveries, Historical
Publication Year
2009
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
10.2 Oz
Item Length
7.8 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Dewey Decimal
920.02
Synopsis
'Monsters' presents, in chronological order, grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious and profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in common - they have had a baleful and blood-soaked impact on the annals of world history., The preferred method of torture of Vlad Dracul, 15th-century prince of Wallachia, was to attach a horse to each of the victim's legs as a sharpened stake was gradually forced into his body; Vlad also enjoyed scalping, skinning and boiling alive. The 14th-century Mongol warlord Tamerlane once ordered the building of a pyramid of 70,000 human skulls from those that his army had beheaded In 101 World Heroes Simon Sebag Montefiore selected his ultimate heroes and heroines. Now he offers his readers the other - darker - side of the coin. Monsters presents, in chronological order, grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious and profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in common - they have had a baleful and blood-soaked impact on the annals of world history.From Attila the Hun to Basil the Bulgar Slayer, from Pedro the Cruel to Ivan the Terrible, and from Richard III to Saddam Hussein, Monsters is a devilishly compelling gallery of history's greatest ghouls, including: Caligula, Richard III, Adolf Eichmann, Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot, Charles Manson, Herman Cortes, Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, Laventi Beria, Lucrezia Borgia, Nicolae Ceausescu, Vlad the Impaler, Saddam Hussein, Simon de Montfort, Pablo Escobar, Ivan the Terrible, Genghis Khan, Idi Amin, Attila, Josef Mengele, Heinrich Himmler, Mao Zedong, Osama bin Laden, Kim Il Sung, Slobodan Milosevic, Empress Cixi, Tomas de Torquemeda., Monsters presents, in chronological order, grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious and profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in common: they have had a baleful and blood-soaked impact on the annals of history.
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