The Desktop Digest Of Despots And Dictators

Author : Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620877465
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Desktop Digest of Despots and Dictators written by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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. Roman Emperor Nero, who lit the roads to the Coliseum’s night games by lining them with human torches made of the burning bodies of crucified Christians Alfredo Stroessner, under whose administration Paraguay offered comfortable refuge to former Nazis while rifle-toting “sportsmen” flocked to the countryside on weekends to legally hunt Indians Idi Amin, the dictator of Uganda, where power outages at the capitol were a routine occurrence because the sluiceways at the nearby hydroelectric dam were clogged with the bodies of so many citizens executed in his torture cells that the pampered local disposal team—the crocodiles—couldn’t eat them fast enough The horrifying pageant of tyranny has trailed in its wake a vicious train of exploitation, intolerance and oppression—war, conquest, subjugation, slavery, imprisonment, torture and execution—which continues unabated to the present day. Dictators never disappoint when it comes to proving that absolute power corrupts absolutely. This is the perfect handbook for educators, armchair historians, and pop-culture pundits.

Author : Gilbert Alter-Gilbert
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616088303
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Desktop Digest of Despots and Dictators written by Gilbert Alter-Gilbert and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles history's most corrupt leaders and totalitarian regimes, detailing their warped personalities and horrific crimes.

Author : William N. Spencer
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1669801705
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worst of the Worst written by William N. Spencer and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2021-12-01 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look back at some of the worst despotic tyrants in our world's history. Perhaps by reading about their great egotistical mistakes we can prevent abominable history from repeating itself.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782122559
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tyrants written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I have committed many acts of cruelty and had an incalculable number of men killed, never knowing whether what I did was right. But I am indifferent to what people think of me." - Genghis Khan A spine-chilling chronicle of dictators and their crimes against humanity, Tyrants introduces the most bloodthirsty madmen - and women - ever to wield power over their unfortunate fellow human beings. From Herod the Great, persecutor of the infant Jesus, to Adolf Hitler, mass murderer and instigator of the most devastating war the world has ever known, this book examines history's most infamous despots and tells in vivid detail the story of the lives they led, their ruthless climb to the top and the destruction and sorrow they left in their wake. Unflinching in its coverage, Tyrants is a gripping and compelling portrait of the darker side of politics and power, revealing the strange and grisly stories behind the world's most infamous autocrats.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781741850796
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tyrants written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Baudelaire
Publisher : Coyote Arts
ISBN 13 : 1587750384
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pipe Dreams written by Charles Baudelaire and published by Coyote Arts. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From antiquity to the present, people have sought artificial paradise in the stimulations and insights afforded by the use of intoxicants. Famous literary figures have often been the first to experiment with little-known drugs, and to champion their unique fascination upon the human imagination. In this remarkable anthology, a dazzling array of authors, including H. G. Wells, Marie Corelli, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Stephen Crane, Sadegh Hedayat, Santiago Dabove, Jean Cocteau, William James, Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and a host of others from many cultures and historical periods, raids a pharmacopoeia containing ether, absinthe, morphine, hashish, opium, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, chloral hydrate, psilocybin, ayahuasca, carbon tetrachloride, LSD, amyl nitrate, ecstasy, and angel dust, in flights of descriptive prose of unparalleled suggestive power and visionary splendor.

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 100 Tyrants written by Nigel Cawthorne and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alfred Cobban
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictatorship; Its History and Theory written by Alfred Cobban and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Dowswell
Publisher : Evans Brothers
ISBN 13 : 9780237527006
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictatorship written by Paul Dowswell and published by Evans Brothers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of dictatorship seems to prove the accuracy of the well- known saying: 'Power tends to corrupt - and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' Many questions are answered in this fascinating account of perhaps the most controversial type of government the world has known. Ages 13+.

Author : Ron Fridell
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761426271
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dictatorship written by Ron Fridell and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2008 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Discusses dictatorships as a political system, and details the history of dictatorships throughout the world" -- Provided by publisher.