Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World Simon Sebag Montefiore

Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World

Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
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Book Title
Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World
Author
Simon Sebag Montefiore
ISBN
9780525564461
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs--and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer--comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history. These titans of history--encompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorers--lived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint l'Ouverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world events--from ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars. These are the historical figures that everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Simon Sebag MontefiorePublisher: Knopf Publishing GroupPublished: 10/16/2018ISBN: 9780525564461Pages: 640Weight: 1.32lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30dReview Citations: Shelf Awareness 10/26/2018Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2018
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs--and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer--comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
These titans of history--encompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorers--lived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint l'Ouverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world events--from ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars.

These are the historical figures that everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/16/2018
ISBN: 9780525564461
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Shelf Awareness 10/26/2018
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2018
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanovs--and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer--comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
These titans of history--encompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorers--lived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint l'Ouverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world events--from ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars.

These are the historical figures that everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Simon Sebag Montefiore
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 10/16/2018
ISBN: 9780525564461
Pages: 640
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 1.30d

Review Citations: Shelf Awareness 10/26/2018
Kirkus Reviews 08/15/2018