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Monsters - History's Most Evil Men And Women

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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Bloody accounts of history's notorious villains

Monsters is a spine-chilling account of some of the world's most heinous individuals, detailing their lives and their impact on world history. It offers a unique and in-depth perspective on the darkest moments of humanity, and is a must-read for those interested in exploring the human capacity for evil.

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Monsters - History's Most Evil Men And Women

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ISBN: 9781847249517
Publisher: Quercus
Date of Publication: 2009-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: History, Biographies & Memoirs
Goodreads rating: 3.69
(rated by 626 readers)

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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, 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.
 

Bloody accounts of history's notorious villains

Monsters is a spine-chilling account of some of the world's most heinous individuals, detailing their lives and their impact on world history. It offers a unique and in-depth perspective on the darkest moments of humanity, and is a must-read for those interested in exploring the human capacity for evil.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

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