Tyrants: History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators

Ā· Arcturus Publishing
3.4
17 reviews
Ebook
347
Pages
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About this ebook

"I have committed many acts of cruelty and had an incalculable number of men killed, never knowing whether what I did was right. But I am indifferent to what people think of me."
- Genghis Khan

A spine-chilling chronicle of dictators and their crimes against humanity, Tyrants introduces the most bloodthirsty madmen - and women - ever to wield power over their unfortunate fellow human beings.

From Herod the Great, persecutor of the infant Jesus, to Adolf Hitler, mass murderer and instigator of the most devastating war the world has ever known, this book examines history's most infamous despots and tells in vivid detail the story of the lives they led, their ruthless climb to the top and the destruction and sorrow they left in their wake.

Unflinching in its coverage, Tyrants is a gripping and compelling portrait of the darker side of politics and power, revealing the strange and grisly stories behind the world's most infamous autocrats.

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3.4
17 reviews
Heather Sullivan
February 7, 2020
The writer should have dropped some people from the book so that they had enough space to detail some of the actual crimes that would make these people the worst of the worst. It also seemed like that occasionally confused liberal and conservative.
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Noralip Hassanuddin
April 29, 2020
Facts thats twisted, the writer seem done too much 'copy and paste' facts. Writer and book both FAILED
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Ian McDonough
November 4, 2017
The book was good but the file corrupted towards the end so I couldn't finish it???
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About the author

Nigel Cawthorne studied at University College, London, where he gained an Honours degree in Physics, before turning to writing as a career. He has written, contributed to and edited more than 100 books, including Fighting Them On The Beaches: D-Day, 6 June 1944, The Battle of Britain, Vietnam: A War Lost and Won, Stalin, and The Story of the SS. His work has also appeared in over a hundred and fifty newspapers, magazines and partworks on both sides of the Atlantic - from the Sun to the Financial Times.

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