Titans of History

Contents

INTRODUCTION

RAMESES THE GREAT

DAVID & SOLOMON

NEBUCHADNEZZAR II

CYRUS THE GREAT

THE BUDDHA

CONFUCIUS

SUN TZU

LEONIDAS

HERODOTUS

ALCIBIADES

PLATO

ARISTOTLE

ALEXANDER THE GREAT

QIN SHI HUANGDI

HANNIBAL

JUDAH THE MACCABEE AND HIS BROTHERS

CICERO

CAESAR

HEROD THE GREAT

CLEOPATRA

AUGUSTUS & LIVIA

JESUS

CALIGULA

NERO

MARCUS AURELIUS

COMMODUS

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT

ATTILA THE HUN

MUHAMMAD

MUAWIYA & ABD AL-MALIK

ZHAO WU

CHARLEMAGNE

HAROUN AL-RASHID

MAROZIA AND THE PAPAL PORNOCRACY

BASIL THE BULGAR SLAYER

HASSAN AL-SABBAH AND THE ASSASSINS

GODFREY OF BOUILLON & THE CRUSADER KINGS OF JERUSALEM

ELEANOR OF AQUITAINE

SALADIN

RICHARD THE LIONHEART & JOHN SOFTSWORD

GENGHIS KHAN

FREDERICK II OF HOHENSTAUFEN

ISABELLA & ROGER MORTIMER

EDWARD III & THE BLACK PRINCE

TAMERLANE

RICHARD II

HENRY V

GILLES DE RAIS

JOAN OF ARC

TORQUEMADA

VLAD THE IMPALER

RICHARD III

SAVONAROLA

ISABELLA & FERDINAND

COLUMBUS

SELIM THE GRIM

PIZARRO

BARBAROSSA & SILVER ARM

THE BORGIAS: POPE ALEXANDER VI AND HIS CHILDREN CESARE AND LUCREZIA

MAGELLAN

BABUR

CORTÉS

HENRY VIII

SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT

IVAN THE TERRIBLE

ELIZABETH I

AKBAR THE GREAT

TOKUGAWA IEYASU

GALILEO

SHAKESPEARE

ABBAS THE GREAT

WALLENSTEIN

CROMWELL

AURANGZEB

PEPYS

LOUIS XIV

NEWTON

MARLBOROUGH

PETER THE GREAT

NADER SHAH

VOLTAIRE

SAMUEL JOHNSON

FREDERICK THE GREAT

CASANOVA

CAPTAIN COOK

CATHERINE THE GREAT

POTEMKIN

WASHINGTON

JEFFERSON

TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE

TALLEYRAND

MOZART

ROBESPIERRE

NELSON

WELLINGTON

NAPOLEON I

BEETHOVEN

JANE AUSTEN

SHAKA

BYRON

BALZAC

PUSHKIN

ALEXANDRE DUMAS PÈRE & FILS

DISRAELI

GARIBALDI

NAPOLEON III

LINCOLN

JACK THE RIPPER

DARWIN

DICKENS

BISMARCK

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

PASTEUR

FRANCISCO LÓPEZ & ELIZA LYNCH

TOLSTOY

CIXI

LEOPOLD II

TCHAIKOVSKY

CLEMENCEAU

SARAH BERNHARDT

MAUPASSANT

OSCAR WILDE

WILHELM II

LLOYD GEORGE

TOULOUSE-LAUTREC

RASPUTIN

GANDHI

TRUJILLO

LENIN

UNGERN VON STERNBERG

PROUST

SHACKLETON, SCOTT & AMUNSDEN

CHURCHILL

IBN SAUD

VILLA & ZAPATA

STALIN

EINSTEIN

ENVER, TALAT & JEMAL: THE THREE PASHAS

ATATÜRK

PICASSO

ROOSEVELT

MUSSOLINI

TOJO

BEN-GURION

HITLER

NEHRU

BULGAKOV

FRANCO

MAO ZEDONG

ISAAC BABEL

YEZHOV

ZHUKOV

CAPONE

BERIA

HEMINGWAY

HIMMLER & HEYDRICH

KHOMEINI

ORWELL

DENG XIAOPING

DUVALIER

SCHINDLER

HOXHA OF ALBANIA

KIM IL SUNG & KIM JONG IL

ODETTE SANSOM

JFK

NASSER, SADAT, MUBARAK

THE CEAUŞESCUS OF ROMANIA

MANDELA

THE SHAH OF IRAN

JOHN PAUL II

SAKHAROV

NGUEMA

POL POT

IDI AMIN

THATCHER

ANNE FRANK

GORBACHEV & YELTSIN

ELVIS

SADDAM HUSSEIN

KADAFFI

MUHAMMAD ALI

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

ESCOBAR

OSAMA BIN LADEN

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