Monsters
Subtitle: history's most evil men and women
By: Simon Sebag Montefiore ; with John Bew and Martyn Frampton
Contributors: Bew, John; Frampton, Martyn
Edition: Rev. pbk. ed.
Publisher: Quercus
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
ISBN-13: 9781847249517
Subjects: Good and evil; Miscellanea; Murderers; Biography; Dictators; Atrocities; History; World history
Notes: Previous edition: 2008.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Jezebel 9th century BC; title: Nebuchadnezzar c.630-562 BC; title: Qin Shi Huangdi c.259-210 BC; title: Sulla 138-78 BC; title: Herod the Great 73-4 BC; title: Empress Livia 58 BC-AD 29; title: Caligula AD 12-41; title: Nero AD 37-68; title: Domitian AD 51-96; title: Commodus AD 161-92; title: Caracalla AD 186-217; title: Attila the Hun 406-53; title: Empress Theodora 497-548; title: Empress Wu 625-705; title: Justinian II 669-711; title: Pope John XII c.937-64; title: Basil the Bulgar Slayer 957/8-1025; title: Hassan-i-Sabbah, Sheikh of Alamut 1056-1124; title: Godfrey of Bouillon 1060-1100; title: Andronikus I Komnenos c.1118-85; title: Simon de Montfort 1160-1218; title: Genghis Khan c.1163-1227; title: King John 1167-1216; title: Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March 1287-1330; title: Pedro the Cruel 1334-69; title: Tamerlane 1336-1405; title: (Anti-) Pope Clement VII 1342-94; title: Richard II 1367-1400; title: Gilles de Rais 1404-40; title: Tomas de Torquemada 1420-98; title: Vlad the Impaler 1431-76; title: Richard III 1452-85; title: Girolamo Savonarola 1452-98; title: Selim the Grim 1470-1520; title: Francisco Pizarro c.1475-1541; title: Barbarossa c.1478-1546; Silver Arm c.1474-1518; title: Lucrezia Borgia 1480-1519; title: Hernan Cortes 1485-1547; title: Henry VIII 1491-1547; title: The Duke of Alba 1507-82; title: Bloody Mary 1516-58; title: Ivan the Terrible 1530-84; title: Humphrey Gilbert c.1539-83; title: Sawney Beane 16th century; title: Countess Elizabeth Bathory 1560-1614; title: Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venose 1566-1613; title: Albrecht von Wallenstein 1583-1634; title: Aurangzeb 1618-1707; title: Titus Oates 1649-1705; title: Nader Shah 1688-1747; title: Maximilien Robespierre 1758-94; title: Shaka 1787-1828; title: Behram d.1840; title: Jack the Ripper; title: William Walker 1824-60; title: Francisco Lopez 1827-70; title: Empress Dowager Cixi 1835-1908; title: Leopold II 1835-1909; title: Jacob H; title: Smith 1840-1918; title: Lothar von Trotha 1848-1920; title: Dr Crippen 1862-1910; title: Vladimir Lenin 1870-1924; title: Pancho Villa 1878-1923; title: Josef Stalin 1878-1953; title: Talat Pasha 1881-1922; title: Benito Mussolini 1883-1945; title: Hideki Tojo 1884-1948; title: Baron Ungern von Sternberg 1886-1921; title: Adolf Hitler 1889-1945; title: Ante Pavelic 1889-1959; title: Francisco Franco 1892-1975; title: Mao Zedong 1893-1976; title: Nikolai Yezhov 1895-1940; title: Marshal Choibalsan 1895-1952; title: Dr Marcel Petiot 1897-1946; title: Al Capone 1899-1947; title: Lavrenti Beria 1899-1953; title: Heinrich Himmler 1900-45; title: Rudolf Hoess 1900-47; title: Adolf Eichmann 1906-62; title: Dr Hastings Banda c.1906-97; title: Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier 1907-71; title: Enver Hoxha 1908-85; title: Dr Josef Mengele 1911-79; title: Kim Il Sung 1912-94; title: Alfredo Stroessner 1912-2006; title: Nicolae Ceausescu 1918-89; Elena Ceausescu 1916-89; title: Francisco Macias Nguema 1924-79; title: Pol Pot 1925-98; title: Idi Amin 1925-2003; title: Mobutu Sese Seko 1930-97; title: Salvatore Riina b.1930; title: Jim Jones 1931-78; title: Charles Manson b.1934; title: Mengistu Haile Mariam b.1937; title: Saddam Hussein 1937-2006; title: Turkmenbashi 1940-2006; title: Slobodan Milosevic 1941-2006; title: Pablo Escobar 1949-93; title: Osama bin Laden b.1957; title: Index.