Table of Contents
Dedication
Title Page
Contents
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
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