The Desktop Digest of Despots and Dictators: An A to Z of Tyranny by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
English | January 1st, 2013 | ISBN: 1616088303 | 224 Pages | EPUB | 12.46 MB
The Desktop Digest of Dictators and Despots is a compendium and quick reference guide to history’s most notorious absolutist rulers and authoritarian regimes. In a handsome hardcover format, this handy encyclopedia of totalitarians is as informative as it is titillating, a lurid panorama of history’s most malignant autarchs with original full-color portraits and accompanying psychobiographical profiles. From pharaohs to ayatollahs, from Caesar to Hitler, here are fifty-three profiles of history’s most warped personalities and their shocking crimes.