The history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying, and inspiring characters that everyone should know.The giant characters of history--from Mozart to Michelangelo, Shakespeare to Eins
It was history's most successful political partnership--as sensual and fiery as it was creative and visionary. Catherine the Great was a woman of notorious passion and imperial ambition. Prince Potemk
This widely acclaimed biography provides a vivid and riveting account of Stalin and his courtiers—killers, fanatics, women, and children—during the terrifying decades of his supreme power. In a seamle
