Bibliograph

The most evil men and women in history, Miranda Twiss

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The most evil men and women in history, Miranda Twiss

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

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illustrationsportraits

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The most evil men and women in history

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

51024835

Responsibility statement

Miranda Twiss

Summary

Evil is a fact of life. We can see it, not only in the reigns of Stalin and Hitler, but also in everyday crimes like murder, rape and assault -- quite apart from the millions of lives brutalized by political or religious oppression, poverty, disease and starvation ..

Table Of Contents

Caligula, the schizophrenic emperor -- Nero, fifth emperor of Rome -- Attila the Hun, the "storm from the east" -- King John, a callous, cold-hearted monarch -- Torquemada, the Spanish inquisitor -- Prince Vlad Dracula, "the impaler" -- Francisco Pizarro, conqueror of the Incas -- "Bloody" Mary I, "a Catholic queen in a Protestant country" -- Ivan IV, 'The terrible", tsar of all the Russias -- Elizabeth, Countess Bathory, "Countess Dracula" -- Rasputin, the "mad monk" who brought down a dynasty -- Josef Stalin, a twentieth-century tyrant -- Adolf Hitler, father of the final solution -- Ilse Koch, the "bitch of Buchenwald" -- Pol Pot, architect of genocide -- Idi Amin, the butcher of East Africa

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