heads of state

"This biography examines the life of Joseph Stalin using easy-to-read, compelling text. Through striking historical and contemporary images and photographs and informative sidebars, readers will learn about Stalin's family background, childhood, education, and his time as dictator of the Soviet Union. Informative sidebars enhance and support the text. Features include a table of contents, timeline, facts page, glossary, bibliography, and an index. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards"--Provided by the publisher.

Adolf Hitler spent 1924 away from society and surrounded by co-conspirators of the failed Beer Hall Putsch. Behind bars in a prison near Munich, Hitler passed the year with deep reading and intensive writing as he slowly walked the gravel paths while working feverishly on his book, Mein Kampf (My Struggle). As post World War I Germany continued to sink into economic chaos and unemployment, Hitler was forming his vision of the future. This was the year of Hitler's final transformation into the self-proclaimed savior and infallible leader who would appropriate Germany's historical traditions and create the Third Reich.

Responsible for protecting the life of Fidel Castro for seventeen years, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez was party to his secret life as well as his public life. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from several continents were trained; to Castro's immense personal fortune (including a huge property portfolio and a secret paradise island); the seizure of public money; and family relationships with his nine children from five different partners, Sanchez saw it all. This expose reveals countless state secrets and shows Castro as the genius war leader in Nicaragua and Angola, the paranoid autocrat at home, a master spy and Machiavellian diplomat, and an accomplice to drug traffickers. Sanchez displeased Castro after he asked to retire early. After his imprisonment and torture, he escaped from Cuba in 2008, and made a new life in Miami where he passed away in May 2015.

Presents a portrait of Adolf Hitler including some of his revealing statements. Contains over 300 photographs taken by his personal photographer.

A biography of Mao Tse Tung, communist China's powerful and contradictory leader, discussing his early life, and examining episodes in his communist revolution.

Dramatizes the story of Adolf Hitler and his rise to power from the beginning, including the forming of the Nazi Party.

A biography of the Chinese revolutionary who became the leader of the communist People's Republic of China.

A biography of Roman emperor Julius Caesar, covering his childhood, rise to power, conquest of Gaul, and assassination as well as other topics, and presents information on life in the Roman Empire.

A biography of Spanish leader General Francisco Franco, discussing his rise through the ranks of the Spanish Army, his actions during the Spanish Civil War and World War II, and other aspects of his fifty-year career, and examining the personal insecurities that plagued him throughout his life.

"By early 1945, the destruction of the German Nazi State seems certain. The Allied forces, led by American generals George S. Patton and Dwight D. Eisenhower, are gaining control of Europe, leaving German leaders scrambling. Facing defeat, Adolf Hitler flees to a secret bunker with his new wife, Eva Braun, and his beloved dog, Blondi. It is there that all three would meet their end, thus ending the Third Reich and one of the darkest chapters of history. Hitler's Last Days is a gripping account of the death of one of the most reviled villains of the 20th century--a man whose regime of murder and terror haunts the world even today. Adapted from Bill O'Reilly's historical thriller Killing Patton, this book will have young readers--and grown-ups too--hooked on history"--.