A Short History of the World in 50 Tyrants

<p<bExplore the tyrants who have shaped the course of history. All power corrupts, but absolute power can turn people into absolute monsters. The true stories behind the men and women who led tyrannies around the world. This is history ... but not as you know it.</b<br<brLeading readers through all of <bworld history</b, Ben Gazur looks at how tyrants and their regimes have <bshaped the course of humanity</bfrom the earliest times right up until the modern day. From the first <bAncient Greek</btyrants to those who still dominate nations today, dictators have always been pulling the strings.<br<brIn <b50 bite-sized chapters</bspanning thousands of years,<iA Short History of the World in 50 Tyrants </iexamines their rise to power, how they stayed there and how they were overthrown, <binvestigating their lives and crimes</b. Readers will learn how <bCatherine the Great</bseized the throne from her own husband, how <bAdolf Hitler</bcreated a cult of personality to assume complete control, and how <bJulius Caesar</bmet his end under a rain of stabs on the senate floor.<br<brFollow the whims, eccentricities and evil acts of <bdictators across the millennia</b, such as the deadly search for immortality by the first Chinese Emperor, the wily machinations of the Emperor Augustus and the crushing brutality of <bPol Pot</b’s rule.<br<br<bAlso available:</b<br<iA Short History of the World in 50 Places</i(9781789291971)<br<iA Short History of the World in 50 Animals</i(9781789292954)<br<iA Short History of the World in 50 Books</i(9781789294088)<br<iA Short History of the World in 50 Lies</i(9781789294606)<br<iA Short History of the World in 50 Failures</i(9781789296938)</p