Introduction
THE ANCIENT WORLD
Akhenaton, Pharaoh of Egypt
Sennacherib, King of Assyria
Pheidon of Argos, Tyrant of Athens
Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia
Emperor Ch'in Shih-huang-ti, Emperor of China
Herod the Great, King of Judaea
Augustus, First Emperor of Rome
Caligula, Emperor of Rome
Agrippina, 'Empress' of Rome
Nero, Emperor of Rome
Domitian, Emperor of Rome
Attila the Hun, King of the Huns
Fredegund, Queen of the Franks
THE MIDDLE AGES
Wu Zetian, Empress of China
Harun-al-Rashid, Caliph of Baghdad
Genghis Khan, Ruler of the Mongols
King John, King of England
Pedro the Cruel, King of Castile
Tamerlane, Ruler of Samarkand
Gian Galeazzo Visconti, Duke of Milan
Tomas de Torquemada, Grand Inquisitor of Spain
Vlad the Impaler, Count of Wallachia
Richard III, King of England
Cesare Borgia, Cardinal of Rome
Francisco Pizarro, Conqueror of the Incas
Herna´n Corte´s, Destroyer of the Aztecs
Henry VIII, King of England
Mary I, Queen of England
Catherine de'Medici, Regent of Franc
Ivan the Terrible, Tsar of Russia
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ruler of Japan
Boris Godunov, Tsar of Russia
Elizabeth Bathory, Countess of Transylvania
Charles I, King of England
Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India
Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia
Nadir Shah, Shah of Persia
THE NAPOLEONIC ERA
Catherine the Great, Tsarina of Russia
George III, King of England
Tippu Sultan, Sultan of Mysore
Louis XVI, King of France
Paul I, Tsar of Russia
Maximilien Robespierre, Revolutionary French Leader
Dr Jose´ Gaspar Rodri´guez Francia, Dictator of Paraguay
Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France
Agusti´n de Iturbide, Dictator of Mexico
Shaka, Chief of the Zulu
Juan Manuel de Rosas, Dictator of the Argentine Confederation
Hung Hsiu-ch'uan, Warlord of China
Francisco Solano Lo´pez, Dictator of Paraguay
Antonio Guzma´n Blanco, President of Venezuela
Leopold II, King of Belgium
Mwanga, Kabaka of Buganda
THE MODERN WORLD
Porfirio Di´az, Dictator of Mexico
Tzu-hsi, Dowager Empress of China
Kaiser Wilhelm II, Emperor of Germany
Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, Leader of the USSR
The Three Pashas, Rulers of the Ottoman Empire
Syngman Rhee, President of Korea
Juan Pero´n, President of Argentina
Josef Stalin, Leader of the USSR
Benito Mussolini, Dictator of Italy
Adolf Hitler, Fu¨hrer of Germany
Anto´nio de Oliveira Salazar, Ruler of Portuga
Rafael Trujillo, Dictator of the Dominican Republic
Francisco Franco, Dictator of Spain
Ayatollah Khomeini, Ruler of Iran
Fulgencio Batista y Zaldivar, Dictator of Cuba
Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
Sukarno, President of Indonesia
Franc¸ois Duvalier ('Papa Doc'), President of Haiti
Enver Hoxha, Leader of Albania
Alfredo Stroessner, Dictator of Paragua
Augusto Pinochet, President of Chile
Ferdinand Marcos, President of the Philippines
Nicolae Ceausescu, Dictator of Romania
Jean Bedel Bokassa, President, Central African Republic
Idi Amin, President of Uganda
Francisco Maci´as Nguema, President of Equatorial Guinea
Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe
Fidel Castro, President of Cuba
Efrain Ri´os Montt, Dictator of Guatemala
Pol Pot, Leader of Cambodia
Mobutu Sese Seko, Dictator of the Congo
Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ruler of Ethiopia
Saddam Hussein, President of Iraq
Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia
Muammar al-Gaddafi, President of Libya
Hissen Habre´, Dictator of Chad
Sani Abacha, Dictator of Nigeria
Omar al-Bashir, Dictator of Sudan
Samuel Doe, Dictator of Liberia
Charles Taylor, President of Liberia
