Title:
Tyrants : history's 100 most evil despots & dictators
Author:
Cawthorne, Nigel.
ISBN:
9781848588295
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
London : Arcturus, 2012.
Physical Description:
208 p. : ill., ports. ; 26 cm.
General Note:
First edition published in 2004.
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: THE ANCIENT WORLD -- 1.Akhenaton -- Pharaoh of Egypt -- 2.Sennacherib -- King of Assyria -- 3.Pheidon of Argos -- Tyrant of Athens -- 4.Tarquin the Proud -- Last King of Rome -- 5.Polycrates -- Tyrant of Samos -- 6.Alexander the Great -- King of Macedonia -- 7.Emperor Ch'in Shih-huang-ti -- Emperor of China -- 8.Herod the Great -- King of Judaea -- 9.Augustus -- First Emperor of Rome -- 10.Caligula -- Emperor of Rome -- 11.Agrippina -- `Empress' of Rome -- 12.Nero -- Emperor of Rome -- 13.Domitian -- Emperor of Rome -- 14.Attila the Hun -- King of the Huns -- 15.Fredegund -- Queen of the Franks -- THE MIDDLE AGES -- 16.Wu Hou -- Empress of China -- 17.Harun-al-Rashid -- Caliph of Baghdad -- 18.Saint Olga -- Regent of Russia -- 19.Genghis Khan -- Ruler of the Mongols -- 20.King John -- King of England -- 21.Pedro the Cruel -- King of Castile -- 22.Tamerlane -- Ruler of Samarkand -- 23.Gian Galeazzo Visconti -- Duke of Milan --
Contents note continued: 24.Tomas de Torquemada -- Grand Inquisitor of Spain -- 25.Vlad the Impaler -- Count of Wallachia -- 26.Richard III -- King of England -- 27.Cesare Borgia -- Cardinal of Rome -- 28.Francisco Pizarro -- Conqueror of the Incas -- 29.Hernan Cortes -- Destroyer of the Aztecs -- 30.Henry VIII -- King of England -- 31.Mary I -- Queen of England -- 32.Catherine de'Medici -- Regent of France -- 33.Ivan the Terrible -- Tsar of Russia -- 34.Toyotomi Hideyoshi -- Ruler of Japan -- 35.Boris Godunov -- Tsar of Russia -- 36.Elizabeth Bathory -- Countess of Transylvania -- 37.Charles I -- King of England -- 38.Aurangzeb -- Mughal Emperor of India -- 39.Peter the Great -- Tsar of Russia -- 40.Nadir Shah -- Shah of Persia -- 41.Frederick William I -- King of Prussia -- THE NAPOLEONIC ERA -- 42.Catherine the Great -- Tsarina of Russia -- 43.George III -- King of England -- 44.Tippu Sultan -- Sultan of Mysore -- 45.Louis XVI -- King of France -- 46.Paul I --
Contents note continued: Tsar of Russia -- 47.Maximilien Robespierre -- Revolutionary French Leader -- 48.Dr Jose Gaspar Rodriguez Francia -- Dictator of Paraguay -- 49.Napoleon Bonaparte -- Emperor of France -- 50.Agustin de Iturbide -- Dictator of Mexico -- 51.Ludwig I and Ludwig II -- Kings of Bavaria -- 52.Shaka -- Chief of the Zulu -- 53.Juan Manuel de Rosas -- Dictator of Argentina -- 54.Ferdinand II -- King of Naples and Sicily -- 55.Hung Hsiu-ch'uan -- Warlord of China -- 56.Theodore II -- Emperor of Ethiopia -- 57.Francisco Solano Lopez -- Dictator of Paraguay -- 58.Antonio Guzman Blanco -- President of Venezuela -- 59.Leopold II -- King of Belgium -- 60.Mwanga -- Kabaka of Buganda -- THE MODERN WORLD -- 61.Porfirio Diaz -- Dictator of Mexico -- 62.Tzu-hsi -- Dowager Empress of China -- 63.Kaiser Wilhelm II -- Emperor of Germany -- 64.Vladimir Ilyich Lenin -- Leader of the USSR -- 65.Syngman Rhee -- President of Korea -- 66.Juan Peron -- President of Argentina --
Contents note continued: 67.Josef Stalin -- Leader of the USSR -- 68.Benito Mussolini -- Dictator of Italy -- 69.Chiang Kai-shek -- Ruler of China -- 70.Adolf Hitler -- Fuhrer of Germany -- 71.Antonio de Oliveira Salazar -- Ruler of Portugal -- 72.Rafael Trujillo -- Dictator of the Dominican Republic -- 73.Francisco Franco -- Dictator of Spain -- 74.Mao Tse-tung -- Chairman, Chinese Communist Party -- 75.Anastasio Somoza Garcia -- Dictator of Nicaragua -- 76.Ayatollah Khomeini -- Ruler of Iran -- 77.Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar -- Dictator of Cuba -- 78.Ngo Dinh Diem -- President of South Vietnam -- 79.Achmed Sukarno -- President of Indonesia -- 80.Francois Duvalier (`Papa Doc') -- President of Haiti -- 81.Enver Hoxha -- Leader of Albania -- 82.Kwame Nkrumah -- President of Ghana -- 83.Kim Il-sung -- Leader of North Korea -- 84.Alfredo Stroessner -- Dictator of Paraguay -- 85.Augusto Pinochet -- President of Chile -- 86.Ferdinand Marcos -- President of the Philippines --
Contents note continued: 87.Nicolae Ceausescu -- Dictator of Romania -- 88.Jean Bedel Bokassa -- President, Central African Republic -- 89.Idi Amin -- President of Uganda -- 90.Robert Mugabe -- President of Zimbabwe -- 91.Fidel Castro -- President of Cuba -- 92.Efrain Rios Montt -- Dictator of Guatemala -- 93.Pol Pot -- Leader of Cambodia -- 94.Mobutu Sese Seko -- Dictator of the Congo -- 95.Mengistu Haile Mariam -- Ruler of Ethiopia -- 96.Saddam Hussein -- President of Iraq -- 97.Slobodan Milosevic -- President of Serbia -- 98.Muammar al-Gaddafi -- President of Libya -- 99.Hissen Habre -- Dictator of Chad -- 100.Samuel Doe.
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