Showing results for "The Dictator" in Biographies & Memoirs

The ultimate guide to the worst dictators in history: 64 profiles by 64 different historians, politicians and journalists compiled by leading political commentator Iain Dale Were the signs that Putin is a ruthless dictator there all along? How should we deal with President Xi of China? It is...

From the recipient of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize comes an impassioned and inspiring memoir that chronicles her career fighting fascism, filled with insights and advice for standing against authoritarian bullies and confronting disinformation and lies. It includes a foreword by Amal Clooney...

In this engaging life of the 20th century's most self-consciously learned dictator, Geoffrey Roberts explores the books Stalin read, how he read them, and what they taught him. Stalin firmly believed in the transformative potential of words and his voracious appetite for reading guided him throughout his years. A biography as well as an intellectual portrait, this book explores all aspects of Stalin's tumultuous life and politics.

Marcantonio Colonna's The Dictator Pope has rocked Rome and the entire Catholic Church with its portrait of an authoritarian, manipulative, and politically partisan pontiff. Occupying a privileged perch in Rome during the tumultuous first years of Francis' pontificate, Colonna was privy to the shock, dismay, and even panic that the reckless new pope engendered in the Church's most loyal and judicious leaders.

Mussolini has rarely been taken seriously as a totalitarian dictator; Hitler and Stalin have always cast too long a shadow. But what was a negative judgement on the Duce, considered innocuous and ineffective, has begun to work to his advantage. As has occurred with many other European dictators, present-day popular memory of Mussolini is increasingly indulgent; in Italy and elsewhere he is remembered as a strong, decisive leader. Mussolini in Myth and Memory argues against this rehabilitation.

A frank, highly engaging, behind-the-scenes memoir by one of today's most respected journalists. Read by the author Abridged CDs - 5 CDs, 6...

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Six Minutes to Freedom is the remarkable tale of Kurt Muse's arrest and harrowing months of imprisonment; his eyewitness accounts of torture; and the plight of his family as they fled for their lives. It is also the heart-pounding account of the only American civilian ever rescued by the elite Delta Force. Timelier than ever, this is a thrilling and highly personal narrative about one man's courage and dedication to his beliefs.

"คิม จอง อิล" รัฐบุรุษหรือปีศาจของชาวเกาหลีเหนือ สงครามเกาหลี 1950 ปฐมบทแห่งปัญหาเหนือคาบสมุทร หลังสงครามถึงปัจจุบัน เกาหลีเหนือใต้อำนา ของพ่อ-ลูก ตระกูลคิม ปัญหานิวเคลียร์ "อักษะแห่งความชั่วร้าย" ชนวนสำคั หยุดการพัฒนาเกาหลีเหนือ ปัญหาโสมแดงและโสมขาว รอยร้าวที่ไม่อาจประสานได้ในเร็ววันนี้ คิม จอง อึน ผู้สืบทอดความคลุมเครือที่ไม่ต่างจากบิดา การลักพาตั ชาวต่างชาติ ปัญหาที่กาหลีเหนือต้องเร่งแก้ บทสรุปหรืออนาคตของเกาหลีเหนือจะยังมืดมนต่อไป

La vida del célebre dictador italiano creador del fascismo, de la fuerza antepuesta a la razón y las libertades, del efectismo de sus camisas negras y la pomposidad de las marchas militares, puestos bajo la lupa objetiva e imparcialidad de un audio que estamos seguros, lo atrapará de inicio al final.

Probablemente, la figura decisiva de la historia de Chile. Polémico militar chileno, líder de la dictadura existente en ese país entre los años 1973 y 1990, su gobierno y su vida han sido sujetos a los más grandes elogios, pero también a las más variadas críticas, especialmente por las graves violaciones a los derechos humanos que tuvieron lugar mientras mantuvo la presidencia.