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Sebag Montefiore, Simon, 1965-

Titans of history : the giants who made our world / Simon Sebag Montefiore - New York : Vintage Books, 2018 - 622 p.; 24 cm

Rameses the Great --
David & Solomon --
Nebuchadnezzar II --
Sappho --
Cyrus the Great --
The Buddha --
Confucius --
Sun Tzu --
Leonidas --
Herodotus --
Alcibiades --
Plato --
Aristotle --
Alexander the Great --
Qin Shi Huangdi --
Hannibal --
Judah the Maccabee and His Brothers --
Sulla --
Cicero --
Caesar --
Herod the Great --
Cleopatra --
Augustus & Livia --
Jesus --
Caligula --
Nero --
Marcus Aurelius --
Constantine the Great --
Attila the Hun --
Justinian I & Theodora --
Muhammad --
Muawiya & Abd Al-Malik: The Caliphs --
Zhao Wu --
The Venerable Bede --
Charlemagne Haroun Al-Rashid and the Abbasid Caliphs --
Marozia and the Papal Pornocracy --
Basil the Bulgar Slayer --
Melisende and the Crusader Kings of Jerusalem --
Saladin.

"The history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying, and inspiring characters that everyone should know. The giant characters of history--from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Einstein, Henry VIII to Pol Pot, Shaka to George Washington, Jesus Christ to Genghis Khan--lived lives of astonishing drama and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, but they also formed our world and will shape our


ISBN: 9780525564461

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Historia
Historia mundial

LC Class. No.: D 107 / S443t 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 920.02