Titans of history

The Giants Who Made Our World. The history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring characters that everyone should know. In over two hundred concise biographies of the greatest heroes and monsters to have ever lived, Simon Sebag Montefiore tells the history of our world - how it has been shaped not just by kings, empresses, sultans and conquerors, but also by explorers, poets, whores and psychopaths.