Table of Contents

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

About the Author

Simon Sebag Montefiore, historian, novelist and journalist, is best known as the author of Prince of Princes: The life of Potemkin, Stalin: At the Court of the Red Tsar and Young Stalin. He lives in London, and is married to the novelist Santa Montefiore.

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