{"product_id":"titans-of-historyisbn-9780525564461","title":"Titans of History","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Romanovs\u003c\/i\u003e—and one of our pre-eminent historians and a prizewinning writer—comes an inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories about the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese titans of history—encompassing queens, empresses, and actresses, kings, sultans, and conquerors, as well as prophets, artists, courtesans, psychopaths, and explorers—lived lives of astonishing drama, courage and adventure, debauchery and slaughter, virtue and crime. The subjects range widely throughout time and geography from Buddha and Genghis Khan to Nero and Churchill; from Catherine the Great and Anne Frank to Toussaint l’Ouverture and Martin Luther King; from Mozart to Mao; from Jesus Christ and Shakespeare to Einstein and Elvis. Through these lives, Montefiore recounts the most momentous world events—from ancient times to the Crusades, the Holocaust, and the Gulf Wars.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese are the historical figures that everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.“Entertaining and informative. Full of offbeat, fascinating detail.” —\u003ci\u003eSunday Telegraph\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“These sparkling biographical essays include all the usual suspects. . . . It’s a tour of the good, the bad and the ugly.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003eMail on Sunday \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e(U.K.)\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Compulsive reading.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e“We do not shudder at the depths to which men and women throughout history have sunk, but experience a piquant relish . . . a book that reminds us how thin the veneer of civilisation is.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   \u003cbr\u003e “A survey of great historical figures favours villainy over goodness. . . . A compilation of short biographical profiles . . . catering to our appalled fascination with evil. Monsters outnumber heroes. Stalin, the subject of Montefiore’s superb two-volume biography, is the prototype for many of the maniacal autocrats whose rages and rampages are described here. A strutting parade of psychopathic dictators, warlords, malevolent dwarves. . . . Montefiore finds room for a few gods, one or two secular saints, American founding fathers, Lincoln and Churchill, and a smattering artists and scientists, but their achievements hardly manage to maintain the pretence of civilisation. What excites Montefiore is villainy . . . and he does this with wicked verve.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Comprehensive, chilling and highly compelling. A first-class chronologically arranged catalogue that engages as it teaches.” —\u003ci\u003eDaily Express\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eSIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE\u003c\/b\u003e is a historian of Russia and the Middle East. \u003ci\u003eCatherine the Great and Potemkin\u003c\/i\u003e was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize. \u003ci\u003eStalin: The Court of the Red Tsar \u003c\/i\u003ewon the History Book of the Year Prize at the British Book Awards. \u003ci\u003eYoung Stalin \u003c\/i\u003ewon the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography, the Costa Biography Award, and le Grande Prix de la biographie politique. \u003ci\u003eJerusalem: The Biography \u003c\/i\u003ewas a worldwide best seller. Montefiore’s books are published in more than forty languages. He is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eSashenka \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eOne Night in Winter, \u003c\/i\u003ewhich won the Paddy Power Political Fiction Book of the Year Award in 2014. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Montefiore graduated from Cambridge University, where he received his PhD. He lives in London.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300108292325,"sku":"NP9780525564461","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780525564461.jpg?v=1730743691","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/titans-of-historyisbn-9780525564461","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}