An edition of The tyrants
(2013)
The tyrants
2500 years of absolute power and corruption
by Clive Foss
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Profiles the lives and deeds of fifty dictators from around the world who have ruled at times throughout the past 2500 years, including Julius Caesar, Herod, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Saddam Hussein.
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The tyrants: 2500 years of absolute power and corruption
2013, Sterling
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Xerxes (485-465 BC)
Dionysius of Sicily (405-367 BC)
Qin Shi Huang (247-210 BC)
Julius Caesar (49-44 BC)
Herod the Great (37-4 BC)
Caligula (AD 37-41)
Nero (AD 54-68)
Commodus (180-92)
Justinian (527-65)
Wu Zetian (690-705)
Al-Hakim (996-1021)
King John (1199-1216)
Genghis Khan (1206-27)
Muhammad Tughlak (1325-51)
Tamerlane (1370-1405)
Vlad 'The Impaler' (1456-62)
Cesare Borgia (1500-03)
Selim the Grim (1512-20)
Ivan the Terrible (1533-84)
Bloody Mary (1553-8)
Oliver Cromwell (1653-8)
Maximilien Robespierre (1793-4)
Napoleon (1799-1814)
Josae Rodriguez de Francia (1814-40)
Shaka Zulu (1816-28)
Mutesa I of Buganda (1856-84)
Francisco Solano Laopez (1862-70)
Leopold II (1865-1909)
Abdul Hamid II (1876-1909)
Vladimir Lenin (1917-24)
Benito Mussolini (1922-43)
Josef Stalin (1929-53)
Rafael Trujillo (1930-61)
Adolf Hitler (1933-45)
Francisco Franco (1936-75)
Kim Il Sung (1945-95)
Juan Peraon (1946-55)
Mao Zedong (1949-76)
Sukarno (1949-66)
'Papa Doc' Duvalier (1957-71)
Nicolae Ceasescu (1965-89)
Joseph-Daesirae Mobutu (1965-97)
Jean-Bedel Bokassa (1966-79)
Muammar al-Qaddafi (1969-)
Idi Admin (1971-9)
Augusto Pinochet (1973-86)
Pol Pot (1975-9)
Ayatollah Khomeini (1979-89)
Saddam Hussein (1979-2003)
Slobodan Milosevic (1989-2000)
Index.
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Includes index.
Subtitle from front cover.
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