Book description
Simon Sebag Montefiore, one of our pre-eminent historians, presents the
lives of the giants who have made our world. The cast varies from
conquerors, poets, kings, empresses and whores to psychopaths, composers
and explorers. Informative, entertaining, inspiring and sometimes
horrifying, this is a history of the world that contains the stories and
characters that everyone should know and no one should forget. Simon
Sebag Montefiore, one of our pre-eminent historians, presents the lives
of the giants who have made our world. The cast varies from conquerors,
poets, kings, empresses and whores to psychopaths, composers and
explorers. Informative, entertaining, inspiring and sometimes
horrifying, this is a history of the world that contains the stories and
characters that everyone should know and no one should forget.
