The World

CONTENTS

Dedication

Title Page

Epigraph

Preface and Acknowledgements

Note

Introduction

ACT ONE WORLD POPULATION:

Houses of Sargon and Ahmose: Ziggurats and Pyramids

Poetess, Princess, Victim, Avenger: Enheduanna

Kubaba: First Queen

Khufu and Mother: The Pyramid Builders

My Father I Knew Not: Sargon King-Smasher

Enheduanna’S Revenge

The Shattered Head of Seqenenre the Brave

Hatshepsut: Foremost of the Women – First Pharaoh

Boy Racer, Marksman, Horse Whisperer, Bull Breaker: Amenhotep

Mistress of Egypt: Gold, Wives and Diplomacy

Houses of Hattusa and Rameses

Sun Mania: Nefertiti and the King of Hatti

Transitioning: The Male Nefertiti, Tutankhamun’S Wife and the Prince of Hatti

Clash of the Charioteers: Rameses and Muwatalli

War Queens: Lady Hao of Shang, Pudehepa of Hattusa and Nefertari of Egypt

The Nubian Pharaohs and Great Kings of Ashur: House Alara versus House Tiglath-Pileser

Three Queens: Jezebel, Semiramis and Athaliah

Tiglath-Pileser and Family: The World -Conquering Assyrians

Alara of Kush: First African Empire

Africa Versus Asia: Shabaka Versus Sennacherib

Depression of A World King: Esarhaddon and Taharqo

Ashurbanipal and Grandmother: A Power Partnership

ACT TWO 100 MILLION

Haxamanis and Alcmaeon: Houses of Persia and Athens

Nebuchadnezzar, His Queen and the Whore of Babylon

Cyrus and Queen Tomyris: Conqueror To Goblet

Darius and Buddha: The Wheel

The Alexandrians and the Haxamanishiya: Eurasian Duel

Queen Amestris and the Mutilation of Artaynte

Pericles, Aspasia and the Plague of Athens

Alcibiades and Socrates

The Poison Contest of Persia and the Literary Halitosis Plot of Macedonia

One-Eyed Philip and Queen Olympias

Roulette: Darius Iii and Alexander Iii

Alexander, Roxane and Chandragupta: World King, Afghan Queen, Indian King

Death In Babylon: The Killing Commences

The Mauryans and the Qin

Seleukos In India: The Rise of Chandragupta

Ashoka – Wheel -Turning King

Heart of Tiger and Wolf: Enter the Qin

The Barcas and the Scipios: The Houses of Carthage and Rome

Love Among the Ptolemies

African Lightning and Human Sacrifice: Barca of Carthage

Scipio, Hannibal and Masinissa

Demetrios, King of the Indians

Rotting Fish of Qing: The Rise of Little Rascal

Monstress: Meet the Human Swine

Mihrdad and Judah: Jewish Hammer; Parthian Shot

Africanus the Younger and the King of Numidia: The death of Great Cities

ACT THREE 120 MILLION

The Han and the Caesars

King Fatso, His Son and the Cleopatras

Harmonious Kinship, Blood -Spattered Marriage: A Princess with the Nomads

The King Who Couldn’T Be Poisoned, The Monorchistic Dictator and the Teenaged Butcher

The Castrated Historian and Emperor Wu

Bald Fornicator and Egyptian Queen: Caesar and Cleopatra

Crassus’ Head and the Million Dead Gauls

Who I Screw: Cleopatra, Caesar and Antony

Cleopatra’S Snake, Alexander’S Nose

Augustus, Julia and the One -Eyed Queen of Kush

Flying Swallow and the Passion of the Cut Sleeve

The Reptile of Capri

If Only Rome Had One Neck: Caligula and Sisters

Trajans and First Step Sharks: Romans and the Maya

Swinger in the Palace: Messalina’S Coup

Rule of the Freedmen: Agrippina’S Marriage

Mothers, Brothers and Sisters: Nero, Agrippina and the Bans

Authoress and the Protector-General in the Tiger’S Lair: Ban Chao and the Wise One

Star Wars, Pierced Penises, Sex Slaves and Steam Baths

Hadrian In Love: Death on the Nile

Severans and Zenobians: Arab Dynasties

The Eunuchs, The Imperial Philosopher and the Pandemic

The Philosopher’S Monster: Commodus

Slaughter of Eunuchs and the Megalomania of Exsuperatorius

Elagabalus In Transition: The African Emperor and Three Arab Empresses

The Shah, The Stuffed Emperor and the Salted Testicles

Zenobia and Constantine

ACT FOUR 200 MILLION

Houses of Constantine, Sasan and Spearthrower Owl

Christian Family Values: Wife Killer and Thirteenth Apostle

The Crowned Embryo and the Pagan Emperor

First Crocodile and Rugila the Hun

Attila and Empress Placidia

Attila’S Bloody Wedding – and Justinian’S Bride

Qusay and Justinian: From Constantinople To Mecca

Justinian: Solomon, I Have Surpassed You

Justinian’s Pandemic – and the Killer Birds of Mecca

ACT FIVE 300 MILLION

The Muhammad Dynasty

Family Feud

The Emperor Who Crowed Like A Cock and Barked Like A Dog: The Madness of Justin

Recite! I Cannot Recite! Recite! The Revelation of Muhammad

Tang and Sasan

Deadly Hunter, Lion of the East: Khusrau’S Megalomania

Taizong and the King of Tibet

Xuanzang’S Travels: The Opening of the Indosphere

The Family of Muhammad

Prune the Foreskinned Ones With Your Swords! Conquests of the Muhammad Family

Enchanting Wu: The Empress Killed My Baby

ACT SIX 207 MILLION

Houses of Muhammad and Charlemagne

Arab Caesar and Yazid of Whoring, Yazid of Monkeys

Political Jism: The Teeth and Claws of Empress Wu

The Fly Killer of Damascus and the Empresses of Tang

The Hammer and the Playboy Caliph: Cunts On A Lion’S Brow

The Bloodshedder and the Giant Baby: Rise of Abbas, Fall of Tang

The Falcon of Al -andalus and the Crowned Doves of Aix: Abd Al-Rahman and Charlemagne

Killing the Demons: The Sword of Charlemagne

Charlemagne’S Coronation, Haroun’S Wedding

The Thousand and One Nights

: The Caliph and the Singer -Stars of Baghdad

Bring Me the Head of Jafar, Motherfucker

The Blackbird of Cordoba

Rurikovichi and the House of Basil

The Magic: Rurik and the Vikings – Berserk War, Group Sex and Human Sacrifice

Constantinople and Rome: Basil the Unibrow Horse Whisperer and Marozia the Senatrix

Pagan Converts: Vladimir and Rollo

Caliph of Cordoba

The

Ghanas

and the Fatimiyya

African Power:

Ghana

of Wagadu and the Master of Cairo

Al -Misk’S Perfumes, Jawar’S Fish and the Jewish Vizier: The House of Fatimiyya

The Caligula of Cairo, The Lady of Power and the Bulgar Blinder

The Bluetooths Take England: Unready, Ironside, Forkbeard and Harefoot

The Americans: Freydis and Feathered Serpent

ACT SEVEN 226 MILLION

Song, Fujiwara and Chola

Dream Pool Essays: Gunpowder, Paper Money, Poetry – The Sophisticates of Song

Two Female Writers – Murasaki and the Poetess

Seljuks, Komnenoi and Hautevilles

Arslan Rampant Lion and the Ageless Zoë

Iron-Arm William, Wily Robert and Amazonian Sichelgaita

Penis In A Palm Tree: The Poet -Princess and the Vain Lion

Roger’S Fart, Zaynab’S Magic and El Cid’S Sword

Crusaders: The Giant and the Emperor’s Daughter

ACT EIGHT 360 MILLION

Genghis: A Conquering Family

Rise and Fall of the Khan

The Fall of Temujin

Tamara, Champion of the Messiah

Temujin Bounces Back

The Seducer and the Avenger: The Teeth of andronikos and the Eyes of the Doge

Genghis – My Golden Life – and the Black Death

Genghis and Sons: What is the Greatest Joy For A Man?

Khmers, Hohenstaufen and Polos

Jayavarman of Angkor and the Wonder of the World

Genghis and Frederick: Showdown at the Deathbed

When Women Ruled The World: Sorqaqtani and Razia

Alexander Nevsky and MöNgke Khan: World Conquest Restored

Hulagu and Saadi: Entertaining An Elephant, Slaughtering A City

I Wish I Were Dust: The Slave King and the Last Hauteville

Kublai and the Polo Brothers

The Keitas of Mali and the Habsburgs of Austria

Rapacious Rudolf and Marco Million

Kublai’S Invasion of Japan

The Polos Escape and the Il -Khans’ Historian

Sundiata The Lion King: The

Mansas

of Mali and the Mexica of the Island City

The World’S Richest Man – Musa In Cairo

The Destructive Death: Four Writers in the Great Mortality

ACT NINE 350 MILLION

The Tamerlanians, the Ming and the

Obas

of Benin

The Ottomans Arrive In Europe: Two Castles and A Wedding

The Head Towers: Tamerlane and the Poet Hafiz

Tamerlane Takes Delhi; Thunderbolt In A Cage

World Emperor: Tamerlane In Samarkand

Beggar Emperor: Death By A Thousand Cuts and Extermination to the Ninth Degree

Follow The Chinese Way: The Eunuch Admiral and Tamerlane’S Tomb

Massacre of the Concubines

The Leopard King and João the Bastard

ACT TEN 350 MILLION

Medici and Mexica, Ottomans and Aviz

Henry the Navigator: Slaves, Sugar and Gold

Cosimo and the Pirate Pope: In the Name of God and Good Business

The Throat-Cutter and the Conqueror: The Fall of Constantinople

Itzcoatl’S Mexica: Those Who Die for the God

Incas, Trastamaras and Rurikovichi

The Earthshaker and the Impotent

The Second and Third Rome: Caesar Mehmed and Sophia of Moscow

A Hit Gone Wrong: Magnifico and Michelangelo

Sophia’S Kremlin; Scanderbeg’S Albania; Bellini’S Portrait

Manikongos,

Borgias and Columbuses

Isabella and Ferdinand: Conquerors of Islam, Scourge of The Jews

The

Manikongo

of Kongo and El Hombre of Portugal

Anacaona, The Admiral and the Queen

Bonfire of the Vanities: Pope Alexander and the Borgias’ Chestnut Orgy

Habsburgs and Ottomans

Arch-Sleepyhead of the Roman Empire – and Juana The Mad

The Biggest Balls: Two

Terribiles

– Julius and Michelangelo

Luther and Leo: The Devil’S Faeces and the Pope’S Elephant

Manuel’s Eastern Marauders: Da Gama and Albuquerque

ACT ELEVEN 425 MILLION

Tamerlanians and Mexica, Ottomans and Safavis

Babur Takes Delhi

Selim – Sunken Deep In Blood

The Alexander–Jesus of Persia Bids For World Conquest

Roxelana and Suleiman: The Joyful and the Magnificent

Charles and the

Manikongo

CortéS, Malinche and Motecuhzoma

Isabel Montezuma: The Last Empress and the Fall of the Mexica

Incas, Pizarros, Habsburgs and Medici

Le Grand Nez

and the Carnation Empress

The Inca and the Conquistador

The Black Duke, Michelangelo and the Sack of Rome

Michelangelo’S

Last Judgment

and the Fall of The Black Duke

Suleiman’S Favourites: Roxelana and Ibrahim

Tamerlanians and Rurikovichi, Ottomans and the House of Mendes

Stranglings and Sea Battles: The Barbarossa Brothers and the Pirate Queen

The Habsburg Brothers and Their Conquistadors

The Ottoman Empress, The Lucky Louse and DoñA Gracia

The Prudent King and Three English Queens

Hoyda!

Bloodthirsty Wild Beast

Blond Sultan, Jewish Duke, Serbian Vizier

Valois and Saadis, Habsburgs and Rurikovichi

La Serpente

: A Medici Queen In France

Philip’S Murderous Flagellating Son and Swashbuckling Brother: Victory and Heartbreak

Red Wedding: Brat King, Crocodile Queen and Psychotic Tsar

Murder of the Sons: King of the Hermaphrodites and Tsar of Siberia

The Battle of Three Dead Kings: Sebastian the Asleep and Mansur the Golden

King Bayano, Drake and Diego

Two Armadas: Philip and Hideyoshi

The Mad Emperor of Prague

ACT TWELVE 545 MILLION

Dahomeans, Stuarts and Villiers, Tamerlanians and Ottomans

King of Witches – James In Love, Shakespeare At Court

The Empresses of Agra and Constantinople: Light of the Palace and Beautiful Moon

Highfall: Prince of Darkness and the Coprophagian Julius Caesar

Murder By Enema: The Favourites of James

Assassination By Testicular Compression: KöSem and Her Boys

The Smiths, The Planet King and Two Artists

Saints of America: Cromwell, Warwick and Winthrop

Taj Mahal: Mumtaz’S Daughter and KöSem’S Mad Son

Manikongo Garcia, Queen Nzinga and Ahosu Houegbadja: Three African Kings

Zumbas and Oranges, Cromwells and Villiers

I’Ll be The Whore of the Rabble: The Nineteen Gentlemen of Amsterdam and the Pirate Prince of New Amsterdam

Saints and Cavaliers: Charles, Henrietta Maria and Cromwell

Killing Kings: Badgers and Hetmans, Sugar Cubes and Bowstrings

Incorruptible Crown and the Magnificent Mother

The Bowels of Christ: Protector Oliver and Prince Dick

Ganga Zumba – King of Palmares

The World Seizers: Shivaji, Aurangzeb and the Poetess

Queen Dick

Manchus and Shivajis, Bourbons, Stuarts and Villiers

VeláZquez, Bernini and Artemisia

Anne and Mazarin

Sex, Poison and War at The Court of the Sun King

The Merrie Brothers and the Africa Company

Minette, Barbara and the Eating of De Witt

High Qing, Great Mughal and

Chhatrapati

Afsharis and Manchus, Hohenzollerns and Habsburgs

Hogmouth Leopold, Gunpowder Sobieski and Queen Cleopatra: The Last Great Charge

The Changeling, The King’S Underwear and the Oranges

Titanic Deathbeds: Carlos, Alamgir, Louis, Kangxi

Cock Robin, Prussian Monster, Polish Hercules

The Philosopher Prince, The

Philosophe

and the Marquise

The Orgasm, The Conqueror, The Diamond and the Courtesan: Nader, Rangila and Frederick

Stop Making The Queen Wretched: Maria Theresa – Mother, Empress, Warlady

What’S A Father, What’S A Son? The Madness of Big Daddy

Durranis and Saids, Hemingses and Toussaints

Afghan Conquerors and Arabian Kings: Durranis, Saudis and Omanis

Agaja, The Viceroy of Ouidah and the Monster of Jamaica

Three American Families: Hemingses, Jeffersons and Toussaints

Mimi and Isabella: Your Archangelic Little Bum

Romanovs and Durranis, Pitts, Comanche and Kamehamehas

Pitt’S War: The Great Commoner

Indian Warlords: Durrani and Clive

Empire Builders: Comanche Warlords and Pitt The Snake

The Rule of Cock and Cunt: Catherine The Great and Potemkin

Durrani’S Maggots: Empire In India

Radicals: Jefferson and the Hemingses; The English Queen of Denmark and the Doctor’S Fall

Antoinette and Louis: Imperial Sex Therapy At Versailles

Shoot off Your Arrow: Kamehameha and Cook

The Intervention: Antoinette and Fersen

Mozart, Joseph and his Continual Erections

ACT THIRTEEN 990 MILLION

Arkwrights and Krupps, Habsburgs, Bourbons and Sansons

The Iron -Mad Titan, Canal Duke, Dandy Beau, Owd Wooden Leg and Moll Hackabout

Sally Hemings and Marie Antoinette: The Diamond Necklace and the Love Cabbage

Saint -Georges, Dangerous Liaisons and the Abolitionists

Requiem: Joseph and Mozart

Antoinette, The Executioner and the Guillotine Machine

Two Revolutions – Haiti and Paris: Cécile and Toussaint, Robespierre and Danton

ACT FOURTEEN 790 MILLION

Bonapartes and Albanians, Wellesleys and Rothschilds

Antoinette, Josephine and the National Razor

Black Spartacus and the Tyrant of Virtue

A Heap of Eyeballs: Tiger Tipu, The Wellesley Brothers and the Avenging Eunuch of Persia

Egyptian Potentates: Bonaparte and Mehmed Ali

Two Generals: Toussaint and Napoleon

One Emperor and Five Kingdoms

The Kings of Capital: The Rothschilds

Zulus and Saudis, Christophes, Kamehamehas and Astors

Tropical Monarchies: Kings of Haiti and Brazil

Wives of the Conquerors: Kamehameha and Napoleon

Wellesleys, Rothschilds and the Woman Who Rides upon the Beast

Arabian Conquests: Mehmed Ali and the Saudis

Napoleon, Marie and Moscow: The French Are Like Women – You Mustn’T Stay Away Too Long

Waterloo: The British Century; Napoleon Ii and the Rise of The Rothschilds

Shaka Zulu, Moshoeshoe and Dona Francisca: The

Mfecane

Empire Builders of East Africa: Mehmed Ali and Said

ACT FIFTEEN 1 BILLION

Braganzas and Zulus, Albanians, Dahomeans and Vanderbilts

The Liberators: BolíVar and Pedro

Queen Marie Louise of Haiti and the Grand Lord of Paraguay: Dr Francia’S Racial Experiment

Manuela, The Liberator and King Cotton

Romantics and the Modern Nation: Lord Byron’S Greek Adventure and Beethoven’S Ninth

Are You Stabbing Me, King of The World? BolíVar and Shaka

Revolution: Pedro and Domitila

The Gladstones – Quamina and Sir John: Slave Rebels and Slave Masters

Lord Cupid and the Lady Patronesses

Rather Die Than Live As A Slave: Daddy Sharpe and Abolition

The Female Fighters of Dahomey, The Viceroy of Ouidah, The Caliph of Sokoto and Commandant Pretorius

Mehmed Ali’S Gambit: Napoleon of The East

American Warlords: Jackson’S Bullets and Santa Anna’S Leg

America Turns West: The King of Hawaii, Queen Emma and Commodore Vanderbilt

ACT SIXTEEN 1.1 BILLION

Bonapartes and Manchus, Habsburgs and Comanche

Revolutions and Mass Politics: Louis Napoleon and Lola Montez

Courtesans and

Das Kapital

: Napoleon and Marx

Splendeurs Et MisèRes Des Courtisanes

Eliza Lynch and Queen Victoria: Two Female Potentates

Rebellion: Last of the Tamerlanians and the First of the Nehrus

Flay, Impale, Burn: The British Reconquer India

Limping Dragon, Iron -Headed Old Rat and Little An: The Rise of Cixi

If Necessary, Seduce the Emperor: Napoleon, Queen of Hearts and the

Risorgimento

of Italy

Lick ’Em Tomorrow: Ulysses and Abraham

Cynthia Parker and Peta Nocona; Franz Josef and Sisi

American Wars: Pedro and LóPez; Charlotte and Eliza

Lincoln and Grant: We’re all Americans

ACT SEVENTEEN 1.2 BILLION

Hohenzollerns and Krupps, Albanians and Lakotas

The Mad Junker, The Cannon King and the Tournament of Modern Power: I’Ve Beaten Them All! All!

Ismail The Magnificent and EugéNie: The Empire Is An Old Woman

The Mousetrap: Napoleon’S Debacle

Kkk and Greasy Grass: Grant and Sitting Bull

The Iron Chancellor and Dizzy

ACT EIGHTEEN 1.3 BILLION

The Houses of Solomon and Asante, Habsburg and Saxe-Coburg

Salama, Princess of Zanzibar, and King Corpses of Katanga

Ismail and Tewodros: The Battle For East Africa

Cetshwayo’S Victory and the Last Napoleon

Butcher Leopold, Hangman Peters and Mad Captain Voulet: African Conquests

Rudolf and Mary At Mayerling; Inspector Hiedler and Adolf At Braunau

Modern Monarchs: Franz Ferdinand and Sophie, Pedro and Isabella, Darling Willy

The Houses of Hohenzollern and Roosevelt, Solomon and Manchu

Empress Cixi, Queen Min and Yat -Sen: The Sun Also Rises

Queen Lili‘Uokalani and Teddy Roosevelt: The Abundance and Ingenuity of America

Roosevelt and the Rough Riders

Abdulaziz – The Return of the Saudis

Rhodes, The Maxim Gun and Lobengula

Menelik and Empress Taytu: African Victory

Gandhi, Churchill and the Sudan Machine

Two Ancient Empresses: Cixi and Victoria

Du Bois, Washington and Roosevelt

Franklin, Eleanor and Hirohito

ACT NINETEEN 1.6 BILLION

Hohenzollerns, Krupps, Ottomans,

Tennos

and Songs

Darling, Harpist, Tutu and Concettina: Willy and His Friends

Vienna: Franzi, Freud, Klimt, Hitler and Other Artists

I Want Nanny: The Baby Emperor, Dr Sun Yat -Sen and the Song Sisters

A Family Wedding: Three Emperors and Three Pashas

Hohenzollerns, Habsburgs and Hashemites

How You Welcome Your Guests: Franzi and Sophie In Sarajevo

A German Private on the Western Front: Mass Killing in the Mass Age

The Kaiser’S Scrotum: Hindenburg As Dictator

A King In Arabia, A Bolshevik In Petrograd

The Fall of the Kaisers

The Tiger, The Goat and Jesus Christ

As Long As We Have India: Gandhi and Nehru

The Brain, The Dumb Dutchman and Lucky Luciano

Probing With Bayonets: The Kings of Munich, Syria and Iraq

Pahlavis and Songs, Roosevelts, Mafiosi and Kennedys

AtatüRk, Reza, Lenin: Father of the Turks, Light of the Iranians and Greatest of Geniuses

The Song Sisters: Sun, Chiang and Mao

Jazz: Roosevelt, Josephine Baker, Lucky Luciano and the Roaring Twenties

Rin Tin Tin: Kennedy, Little Caesar and Fdr

The Field Marshal and the Corporal

Long Knives; Great Terror; Mass Momentum and Personal Power: Hitler and Stalin

Ethiopia with or without Ethiopians: Haile Selassie and Mussolini

ACT TWENTY 2 BILLION

Roosevelts, Suns, Krupps, Pahlavis and Saudis

Hirohito Invades China

Oil Kings – The Conquest of Arabia: Abdulaziz and Reza

That’S How It’S Done: Hitler’S Plan

Hitler and the Young King

The Greatest Battle In History: Hitler’S War of Annihilation; Hirohito’S Gamble

I See Only One Option – Total Extermination: Hitler and the Holocaust

The Slave Masters: Krupp

Hitler’S Battle For Oil

Mao and the Shanghai Actress

The Future of Mankind: Roosevelt, Stalin and Jack Kennedy

Fdr and the Three Kings

We Can Still Win: Hirohito’s offensive

ACT TWENTY-ONE 2.3 BILLION

Nehrus, Maos and Suns, Mafiosi, Hashemites and Albanians

Radiance of A Thousand Suns: Truman’S Non -Surprise and the American Century

The Death of One India: Nehru, Jinnah and the Vicereine

Two Kings: Farouk, Abdullah and the Carve -Up of Palestine

Mao, Jiang Qing and Red Sister Song

Tiger Kim and Stalin’S Proxy War

Meyer Lansky’S Hotel Nacional; Fidel Castro’S Failed Revolution

Fat Fucker and the Boy Scout: Nasser and the Shah Seize Power

Norodoms and Kennedys, Castros, Kenyattas and Obamas

The Young King of Cambodia

An Israeli In Paris

The Miner and the Swimmer: Khrushchev and Mao

Disembowelled In Baghdad:

El Rais

and the Last King of Iraq

La Grandeur

: De Gaulle and HouphouëT

Burning Spears: Kenyatta, Nkrumah and Barack Obama (Senior)

Nikita and Jack, Mimi and Marilyn

The Lion of Judah – and the African Pimpernel

Brothers: The Castros and the Kennedys

Install Nuclear Weapons In Cuba: The Millionaire’S Whore and the Immoral Gangster

Sihanouk and the Shah

Exit Kennedy: Lbj and Mlk

Hashemites and Kennedys, Maos, Nehruvians and Assads

Lyonia the Ballerina: Brezhnev In Power

The Scorpion’S Bite and the Fall of Little Cannon: Mao Unleashes Jiang Qing

Nasser and the King: Six Days In June

The Assassinations: Rfk, Mlk, Mboya

The Aphrodisiac of Power: Kissinger and Nixon’S Triangular Game

Killing B -52: Mao and Pol Pot

Call Me Sir – Dumb Doll Dominates India

I Like Rightists: American Metternich and the Philosopher -King of China

Houses of Solomon and Bush, Bourbon, Pahlavi and Castro

Wild Beasts and Lions: The Assads of Damascus

Imperial Peacocks: The Satanic Feast and the Angel

Did King David Retire? The

Negus

and Major Mengistu

Brother No. 1 and the Gang of Four

The Crusader and the Prince: European Tyrants and Democrats

Indira and Son

Little Cannon, The Eight Immortals and the Scorpion’S Gang

Castro’S Africa

The Spymaster: andropov and His ProtéGé Gorbachev

Imam, Shah and Saddam

Jj of Ghana and Sadat In Jerusalem

Operation 333 In Kabul

Poppy, Osama and W

Maggie and Indira

The Nehruvians: Third Generation

ACT TWENTY-TWO 4.4 BILLION

Yeltsins and Xis, Nehruvians and Assads, Bin Ladens, Kims and Obamas

The Idiot and the Cannon: Gorbachev, Deng and the Unipower

New Africa: Mandela and Jj, Menes and Isaias

The

Familia

: Boris, Tatiana and Rasputin

Knights of Damascus, Marxist Monster Movies and Kings of Data: Iphones and Daggers

Prince of the Towers

Bashar, The Bayonet and the Mona Lisa of India

Where Lions and Cheetahs Lurk

The Killing of Geronimo

ACT TWENTY-THREE 8 BILLION

Trumps and Xis, Sauds, Assads and Kims

The Caliphate and the Crimea

The Dynasts

The Emperor, The Tsar and the Comedian

Conclusion

Epigraph

Select Bibliography

Also by Simon Sebag Montefiore

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