
Titans of History
The Giants Who Made Our World
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Steve West
In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.
These 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.
These are the historical figures everyone should know and the stories we should never forget.
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Critic reviews
“Entertaining and informative. Full of offbeat, fascinating detail.” (Sunday Telegraph)
“These sparkling biographical essays include all the usual suspects.... It’s a tour of the good, the bad and the ugly.” (Mail on Sunday (UK))
“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.” (The Times (London))
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Disagree with some of the author's picks
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Too much art compared to science
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Sequencing
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Moving on, of the US founding fathers, amazingly, Ben Franklin (certainly a giant in a number of domains) is not accorded a biography. Lincoln is given the usual hagiographic treatment. Stalin and Beria (certainly not saints) are tarred with Khruschev's brush (Beria was actually a far more positive figure, and even Stalin was not a cartoon villain). Mussolini, until his disastrous alliance with Hitler was far more benign than such pillars of democracy as Woodrow Wilson and FDR.
JFK is credited with handling the Cuban missile crisis (which his administration caused, thus almost plunging the planet into a nuclear war), while the far more influential (in both good and bad ways) president Nixon is not accorded a bigorgaphy. Mohammed Ali is, though.
Anyway, this is the standard center left tripe - no wonder Sebag Montefiore is a friend of both Prince Charles and David Cameron (two useful idiots).
Verdict: avoid.
Party line history
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Fun romp through history
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Short, but well researched.
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short stories on most well known historical figures makes this large tome very easily digestible this was in my opinion a very well done audiobook.
fantastic short stories on historical figures
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Surprising Delight
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The poor pronunciation of the narrator made it difficult to enjoy the brilliant author’s stories
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I would love to read the "Good Titans of History"
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