Table of Contents
The Ancient World
1 Akhenaton: Pharaoh of Egypt 8
2 Sennacherib: King of Assyria 9
3 Pheidon of Argos: Tyrant of Athens 10
4 Tarquin the Proud: Last King of Rome 11
5 Polycrates: Tyrant of Samos 12
6 Alexander the Great: King of Macedonia 12
7 Emperor Ch'in Shih-huang-ti: Emperor of China 17
8 Herod the Great: King of Judaea 18
9 Augustus: First Emperor of Rome 20
10 Caligula: Emperor of Rome 22
11 Agrippina: 'Empress' of Rome 26
12 Nero: Emperor of Rome 27
13 Domitian: Emperor of Rome 29
14 Attila the Hun: King of the Huns 30
15 Fredegund: Queen of the Franks 32
The Middle Ages
16 Wu Hou: Empress of China 34
17 Harun-al-Rashid: Caliph of Baghdad 35
18 Saint Olga: Regent of Russia 36
19 Genghis Khan: Rider of the Mongols 36
20 King John: King of England 44
21 Pedro the Cruel: King of Castile 45
22 Tamerlane: Ruler of Samarkand 46
23 Gian Galeazzo Visconti: Duke of Milan 48
24 Tomas de Torquemada: Grand Inquisitor of Spain 49
25 Vlad the Impaler: Count of Wallachia 52
26 Richard III: King of England 56
27 Cesare Borgia: Cardinal of Rome 57
28 Francisco Pizarro: Conqueror of the Incas 58
29 Hernán Cortés: Destroyer of the Aztecs 61
30 Henry VIII: King of England 63
31 Mary I: Queen of England 66
32 Catherine de'Medici: Regent of France 68
33 Ivan the Terrible: Tsar of Russia 69
34 Toyotomi Hideyoshi: Ruler of Japan 72
35 Boris Godunov: Tsar of Russia 74
36 Elizabeth Bathory: Countess of Transylvania 76
37 Charles I: King of England 78
38 Aurangzeb: Mughal Emperor of India 81
39 Peter the Great: Tsar of Russia 82
40 Nadir Shah: Shah of Persia 84
41 Frederick William I: King of Prussia 85
The Napoleonic Era
42 Catherine the Great: Tsarina of Russia 87
43 George III: King of England 90
44 Tippu Sultan: Sultan of Mysore 91
45 Louis XVI: King of France 92
46 Paul I: Tsar of Russia 94
47 Maximilien Robespierre: Revolutionary French Leader 96
48 Dr Jose Gaspar Rodríguez Francia: Dictator of Paraguay 100
49 Napoleon Bonaparte: Emperor of France 103
50 Agustín de Iturbide: Dictator of Mexico 108
51 Ludwig I and Ludwig II: Kings of Bavaria 109
52 Shaka: Chief of the Zulu 112
53 Juan Manuel de Rosas: Dictator of Argentina 113
54 Ferdinand II: King of Naples and Sicily 114
55 Hung Hsiu-ch'uan: Warlord of China 115
56 Theodore II: Emperor of Ethiopia 116
57 Francisco Solano López: Dictator of Paraguay 117
58 Antonio Guzmán Blanco: President of Venezuela 122
59 Leopold II: King of Belgium 123
60 Mwanga: Kabaka of Buganda 129
The Modern World
61 Porfirio Díaz: Dictator of Mexico 132
62 Tzu-his: Dowager Empress of China 133
63 Kaiser Wilhelm II: Emperor of Germany 134
64 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin: Leader of the USSR 136
65 Syngman Rhee: President of Korea 138
66 Juan Perón: President of Argentina 139
67 Josef Stalin: Leader of the USSR 141
68 Benito Mussolini: Dictator of Italy 143
69 Chiang Kai-shek: Ruler of China 146
70 Adolf Hitler: Führer of Germany 148
71 António de Oliveira Salazar: Ruler of Portugal 152
72 Rafael Trujillo: Dictator of the Dominican Republic 153
73 Francisco Franco: Dictator of Spain 154
74 Mao Tse-tung: Chairman, Chinese Communist Party 157
75 Anastasio Somoza García: Dictator of Nicaragua 161
76 Ayatollah Khomeini: Ruler of Iran 163
77 Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar: Dictator of Cuba 165
78 Ngo Dinh Diem: President of South Vietnam 167
79 Achmed Sukarno: President of Indonesia 168
80 François Duvalier ('Papa Doc'): President of Haiti 170
81 Enver Hoxha: Leader of Albania 172
82 Kwame Nkrumah: President of Ghana 173
83 Kim Il-sung: Leader of North Korea 174
84 Alfredo Stroessner: Dictator of Paraguay 775
85 Augusto Pinochet: President of Chile 176
86 Ferdinand Marcos: President of the Philippines 178
87 Nicolae Ceausescu: Dictator of Romania 180
88 Jean Bedel Bokassa: President, Central African Republic 182
89 Idi Amin: President of Uganda 184
90 Robert Mugabe: President of Zimbabwe 185
91 Fidel Castro: President of Cuba 187
92 Efrain Ríos Montt: Dictator of Guatemala 190
93 Pol Pot: Leader of Cambodia 192
94 Mobutu Sese Seko: Dictator of the Congo 194
95 Mengistu Haile Mariam: Ruler of Ethiopia 195
96 Saddam Hussein: President of Iraq 197
97 Slobodan Milosevic President of Serbia 200
98 Muammar al-Gaddafi: President of Libya 202
99 Hissen Habré: Dictator of Chad 206
100 Samuel Doe: Dictator of Liberia 208
