The Desktop Digest of Despots and Dictators: An A to Z of TyrannyThe 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.
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The Desktop Digest of Despots and Dictators: An A to Z of Tyranny Gilbert Alter-Gilbert Limited preview - 2013 |
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