Tyrants
History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators

Surprisingly it's actually okay. And it's an enjoyable read. This is a fairly low effort and low barrier to entry light review of history as it applies to different tyrants, dictators, authoritarian rulers with a thirst for blood. Its strengths are in the writing on a sentence by sentence basis. It's......more

Le doy 2 ⭐️ y solo por que al principio si me gusto ... reconozco que conocí de la vida algunos personajes interesantes . Peeeero lo que ya eran conocidos por mi , su historia fue sumamente básica y en algunos casos hasta faltaron datos que aunque no básicos si considerar interesantes y yo pienso qu......more

This had the potential to be a fantastic book: a chance to go into detail about some truly horrific people. However I think Cawthorne made a mistake in making it about 100 people. Some of the people listed, whilst they did some bad things, I don't know that they should necessarily be counted as a de......more

While this was an interesting overview, I seriously question why some of these people are on this list. Like, they're still terrible people, but there are way worse ones to put on the list of the top 100 tyrants. I did enjoy the modern section the most, since it was constantly pointed out how it was......more

This would probably have been better also 50 instead of 100 tyrants. Many of them are 1-2 pages and really glosses over their reign of terror. Some went into a decent amount of depth, 8-10 pages, and that was interesting. You got a better feel for why they were on the list. Overall interesting book......more