Titans of History
640 pages | paperback
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovsāand one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writerācomes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
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These titans of historyāencompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorersālived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint lāOuverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world eventsāfrom ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars.
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These are the historical figures that everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.
Titans of History
640 pages | paperback
Ā
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovsāand one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writerācomes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
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These titans of historyāencompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorersālived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint lāOuverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world eventsāfrom ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars.
Ā
These are the historical figures that everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.
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640 pages | paperback
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovsāand one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writerācomes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
Ā
These titans of historyāencompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorersālived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint lāOuverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world eventsāfrom ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars.
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These are the historical figures that everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.
