Juan and Eva Peron formed a charismatic and formidable partnership, arousing passionate emotions in Argentina during the 1940s and '50s. Juan Peron's rise to power began in 1943 when he helped organise the successful coup of pro-Axis army officers. He became minister of war, vice-president and secretary of labour, but was then briefly imprisoned, ...
The stories of 50 of the most evil tyrants in world history are presented here in chronological order, providing an intriguing look at man's inhumanity to man. Each chapter contains a historic picture of the dictator, their famous quotations, an account of their atrocities, and the concise story of the tyrant's rise and fall. Each account explains ...
Fidel Castro is a dynamic and charismatic leader, who has led Cuba through success and failures since 1959. Son of a rich landowner, he became a radical revolutionary who attempted to overthrow the government in 1956 with a tiny band of followers. Using propaganda and subversion as much as sudden attacks from his mountain hideout, he gained ...
The Bath-Gymnasium Complex of Sardis is a fairly common architectural type in Asia Minor combining a Roman bath with its vaulted halls with the colonnaded palaestra of a Hellenistic gymnasium. Starting in the middle of he first century A.D., many examples of this middles of the first century A.D., many examples of this type were constructed in ...
This illustrated handbook presents a concise history of the development of the coinage of the early Arab caliphate in the seventh century, tracing its transition from coins that closely resembled Byzantine issues with imperial images to purely aniconic specimens with inscriptions in Arabic. This so-called "Arab-Byzantine series" sheds light on a ...
A complete record of the Walls of Nicomedia (which was vital for the defence of Constantinople) and of the smaller fortresses along the gulf ranging in date from the 3rd to the 15th century. Written sources provide the historical context to the sites and relations between Byzantines, Crusaders and Turks.
From Herod to Papa Doc Duvalier, from Nero to Saddam Hussein, here are 50 chilling portraits of the despots whose iron-fisted rule left an indelible mark on the history of the world. Presenting a compelling chronology of the moments in history when the principles of government and law were corrupted by the vanity of the ambitious and unscrupulous, ...
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