The iron bridge
Subtitle: short stories of 20th century dictators as teenagers
By: Anton Piatigorsky
Edition: First U.S. edition
Publisher: Steerforth Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Hanover, New Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9781586422189
Subjects: Dictators; Fiction
Description: Provides fictionalized accounts from the lives of six teenagers who would grow up to become some of the world's most brutal and ruthless dictators, describing how brief instants in their youth could have inspired their destinies.
Notes: "First published in Canada in 2012 by Goose Lane Editions"--Title page verso.
Table of contents: title: Tea is better than Pepsi : Idi Amin (1946); title: A plaything for the king's superfluous wives : Pol Pot (1939); title: The consummation : Mao Tse-Tung (1908); title: Lado's disciple : Josef Stalin (1895); title: Bottle cap : Rafael Trujillo (1908); title: Incensed : Adolf Hitler (1905).