SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE - 101 WORLD HEROES: GREAT MEN AND WOMEN FOR AN UNHEROIC AGE

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The thrilling stories of 101 men and women who have left an indelible imprint on the annals of human achievement and courage.

101World Heroes is bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore’s selection of the ultimate heroes and heroines of world history. Warriors and empresses, statesmen and spies, prophets and conquerors rub shoulders with scientists and poets, explorers and artists, philosophers and actresses across three millennia. Some are very familiar, some have been unjustly neglected. From Alexander the Great to Churchill, from Muhammad to Mozart, from Buddha to Byron, from Aristotle to Elvis, from Joan of Arc to Anne Frank and from Hannibal to Hemingway, they are united not just by the courage, selflessness and genius of their deeds but by their timeless legacies.

The adventures of these heroic lives are recorded in a sequence of elegant, entertaining and informative biographies. Each is accompanied by a short essay revealing fascinating–and sometimes bizarre–aspects of the times in which they lived. Thus the pharaoh Rameses the Great divulges the truth about ancient Egyptian royal marriage, Queen Elizabeth I unlocks her cosmetics cabinet, Galileo recounts the history of the telescope, Tchaikovsky tells of the creation of the ballerina, Admiral Nelson reveals how the guns of Trafalgar fired and Marshal Zhukov shows us round the T-34 tank that won the Second World War. Embellished with a sumptuous array of paintings, photographs and diagrams, and dotted with thought provoking quotations from the heroes’ writings or speeches, 101World Heroes offers the reader a matchless collection of lives to wonder at and stories totell our children.

Written by a prize-winning historian of the younger generation, handsomely designed and beautifully illustrated–101World Heroes is truly a gift book for all seasons and all ages. It is a treasure-chest of unforgettable characters, lives and facts that everyone should know.

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