heads of state

Contents: Invitation to an interview; We were all children once; University years; The test of real life; Things I take to heart; My hopes.

Details the last days of the man who founded Fascism and ruled as dictator of Italy for almost 21 years.

Explores events in Germany that led up to World War II including Hitler's rise to power and the creation of the Third Reich.

Presents a biography of Mao Tse-Tung, leader of China's Communist Revolution, providing detailed information on his childhood, his education, military career, and impact on the culture, economics, and politics of China and the world.

Contains essays that provide information about the life and deeds of Roman leader Julius Caesar, discussing his actions as a politician, soldier, orator and writer, and dictator.

A biography of twentieth-century Cuban leader Fidel Castro that covers his life and political career through January 1999.

Presents profiles of forty people who played important roles in the history of North and South America.

Presents profiles of forty people who played important roles in the history of Europe.

Presents profiles of forty people who played important roles in the history of Africa and Asia.

This striking tragedy of political conflict focuses on the ancient Roman world and the famous assassination of Julius Caesar by his republican opponents. Ironies abound most of all for Brutus, whose fate it is to learn that his idealistic motives for joining the conspiracy against a would-be dictator are not enough to sustain the movement once Caesar is dead.