From Caesar and Nero to Stalin and Hitler, and from Genghis Khan and Vad the Impaler to Pol Pot and Saddam Hussein, here are 50 chilling portraits of the despots whose iron-fisted rule has left an indelible, usually bloody markon the history of the world. The Tryrants recounts the stories of the unscupulous rulers who scarred their own countries and people. Professor Clive foss describes how each of these men and women as often commoners or outcasts as kings or queens-- were able to seize and then wield absolute power, and details the catastrophic destruction and mass suffering they left in their wake.
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