Profiles the lives and deeds of fifty dictators from around the world who have ruled at times throughout the past 2500 years, including Julius Caesar, Herod, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler and Saddam Hussein
Includes index
Subtitle from front cover
Introduction -- Xerxes (485-465 BC) -- Dionysius of Sicily (405-367 BC) -- Qin Shi Huang (247-210 BC) -- Julius Caesar (49-44 BC) -- Herod the Great (37-4 BC) -- Caligula (AD 37-41) -- Nero (AD 54-68) -- Commodus (180-92) -- Justinian (527-65) -- Wu Zetian (690-705) -- Al-Hakim (996-1021) -- King John (1199-1216) -- Genghis Khan (1206-27) -- Muhammad Tughlak (1325-51) -- Tamerlane (1370-1405) -- Vlad 'The Impaler' (1456-62) -- Cesare Borgia (1500-03) -- Selim the Grim (1512-20) -- Ivan the Terrible (1533-84) -- Bloody Mary (1553-8) -- Oliver Cromwell (1653-8) -- Maximilien Robespierre (1793-4) -- Napoleon (1799-1814) -- Josae Rodriguez de Francia (1814-40) -- Shaka Zulu (1816-28) -- Mutesa I of Buganda (1856-84) -- Francisco Solano Laopez (1862-70) -- Leopold II (1865-1909) -- Abdul Hamid II (1876-1909) -- Vladimir Lenin (1917-24) -- Benito Mussolini (1922-43) -- Josef Stalin (1929-53) -- Rafael Trujillo (1930-61) -- Adolf Hitler (1933-45) -- Francisco Franco (1936-75) -- Kim Il Sung (1945-95) -- Juan Peraon (1946-55) -- Mao Zedong (1949-76) -- Sukarno (1949-66) -- 'Papa Doc' Duvalier (1957-71) -- Nicolae Ceasescu (1965-89) -- Joseph-Daesirae Mobutu (1965-97) -- Jean-Bedel Bokassa (1966-79) -- Muammar al-Qaddafi (1969-) -- Idi Admin (1971-9) -- Augusto Pinochet (1973-86) -- Pol Pot (1975-9) -- Ayatollah Khomeini (1979-89) -- Saddam Hussein (1979-2003) -- Slobodan Milosevic (1989-2000) -- Index
