Tyrants

by Cawthorne, Nigel

• ISBN13: 9781848588295
• ISBN10: 1848588291
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-07-09
• Publisher: Arcturus Pub

Summary

From Herod the Great to Adolf Hitler, this book examines history's most infamous despots and tells in vivid detail the story of the lives they led, their climb to power and the destruction and sorrow they left in their wake.

Table of Contents

The Ancient World
Akhenaton: Pharaoh of Egypt	p. 8
Sennacherib: King of Assyria	p. 9
Pheidon of Argos: Tyrant of Athens	p. 10
Tarquin the Proud: Last King of Rome	p. 11
Polycrates: Tyrant of Samos	p. 12
Alexander the Great: King of Macedonia	p. 12
Emperor Ch'in Shih-huang-ti: Emperor of China	p. 17
Herod the Great: King of Judaea	p. 18
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome	p. 20
Caligula: Emperor of Rome	p. 22
Agrippina: 'Empress' of Rome	p. 26
Nero: Emperor of Rome	p. 27
Domitian: Emperor of Rome	p. 29
Attila the Hun: King of the Huns	p. 30
Fredegund: Queen of the Franks	p. 32
The Middle Ages
Wu Hou: Empress of China	p. 34
Harun-al-Rashid: Caliph of Baghdad	p. 35
Saint Olga: Regent of Russia	p. 36
Genghis Khan: Rider of the Mongols	p. 36
King John: King of England	p. 44
Pedro the Cruel: King of Castile	p. 45
Tamerlane: Ruler of Samarkand	p. 46
Gian Galeazzo Visconti: Duke of Milan	p. 48
Tomas de Torquemada: Grand Inquisitor of Spain	p. 49
Vlad the Impaler: Count of Wallachia	p. 52
Richard III: King of England	p. 56
Cesare Borgia: Cardinal of Rome	p. 57
Francisco Pizarro: Conqueror of the Incas	p. 58
Hernán Cortés: Destroyer of the Aztecs	p. 61
Henry VIII: King of England	p. 63
Mary I: Queen of England	p. 66
Catherine de'Medici: Regent of France	p. 68
Ivan the Terrible: Tsar of Russia	p. 69
Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Ruler of Japan	p. 72
Boris Godunov: Tsar of Russia	p. 74
Elizabeth Bathory: Countess of Transylvania	p. 76
Charles I: King of England	p. 78
Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor of India	p. 81
Peter the Great: Tsar of Russia	p. 82
Nadir Shah: Shah of Persia	p. 84
Frederick William I: King of Prussia	p. 85
The Napoleonic Era
Catherine the Great: Tsarina of Russia	p. 87
George III: King of England	p. 90
Tippu Sultan: Sultan of Mysore	p. 91
Louis XVI: King of France	p. 92
Paul I: Tsar of Russia	p. 94
Maximilien Robespierre: Revolutionary French Leader	p. 96
Dr Jose Gaspar Rodríguez Francia: Dictator of Paraguay	p. 100
Napoleon Bonaparte: Emperor of France	p. 103
Agustín de Iturbide: Dictator of Mexico	p. 108
Ludwig I and Ludwig II: Kings of Bavaria	p. 109
Shaka: Chief of the Zulu	p. 112
Juan Manuel de Rosas: Dictator of Argentina	p. 113
Ferdinand II: King of Naples and Sicily	p. 114
Hung Hsiu-ch'uan: Warlord of China	p. 115
Theodore II: Emperor of Ethiopia	p. 116
Francisco Solano López: Dictator of Paraguay	p. 117
Antonio Guzmán Blanco: President of Venezuela	p. 122
Leopold II: King of Belgium	p. 123
Mwanga: Kabaka of Buganda	p. 129
The Modern World
Porfirio Díaz: Dictator of Mexico	p. 132
Tzu-his: Dowager Empress of China	p. 133
Kaiser Wilhelm II: Emperor of Germany	p. 134
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Leader of the USSR	p. 136
Syngman Rhee: President of Korea	p. 138
Juan Perón: President of Argentina	p. 139
Josef Stalin: Leader of the USSR	p. 141
Benito Mussolini: Dictator of Italy	p. 143
Chiang Kai-shek: Ruler of China	p. 146
Adolf Hitler: Führer of Germany	p. 148
António de Oliveira Salazar: Ruler of Portugal	p. 152
Rafael Trujillo: Dictator of the Dominican Republic	p. 153
Francisco Franco: Dictator of Spain	p. 154
Mao Tse-tung: Chairman, Chinese Communist Party	p. 157
Anastasio Somoza García: Dictator of Nicaragua	p. 161
Ayatollah Khomeini: Ruler of Iran	p. 163
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar: Dictator of Cuba	p. 165
Ngo Dinh Diem: President of South Vietnam	p. 167
Achmed Sukarno: President of Indonesia	p. 168
François Duvalier ('Papa Doc'): President of Haiti	p. 170
Enver Hoxha: Leader of Albania	p. 172
Kwame Nkrumah: President of Ghana	p. 173
Kim Il-sung: Leader of North Korea	p. 174
Alfredo Stroessner: Dictator of Paraguay	p. 775
Augusto Pinochet: President of Chile	p. 176
Ferdinand Marcos: President of the Philippines	p. 178
Nicolae Ceausescu: Dictator of Romania	p. 180
Jean Bedel Bokassa: President, Central African Republic	p. 182
Idi Amin: President of Uganda	p. 184
Robert Mugabe: President of Zimbabwe	p. 185
Fidel Castro: President of Cuba	p. 187
Efrain Ríos Montt: Dictator of Guatemala	p. 190
Pol Pot: Leader of Cambodia	p. 192
Mobutu Sese Seko: Dictator of the Congo	p. 194
Mengistu Haile Mariam: Ruler of Ethiopia	p. 195
Saddam Hussein: President of Iraq	p. 197
Slobodan Milosevic President of Serbia	p. 200
Muammar al-Gaddafi: President of Libya	p. 202
Hissen Habré: Dictator of Chad	p. 206
Samuel Doe: Dictator of Liberia	p. 208
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