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Isabel de Madariaga

Isabel Margaret de Madariaga (27 August 1919 – 16 June 2014) was a British historian who specialised on Russia in the 18th century and Catherine the Great. She published six books on Russia and is credited for changing the perception of Catherine the Great amongst Russian and Western scholars. Source: [Isabel de Madariaga]( on Wikipedia.

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Catherine the Great

Isabel de Madariaga, Katharine Susan Anthony, Zoé Oldenbourg, Marc Raeff, Elizabeth Raum, Robert K. Massie, Henri Troyat, Leslie McGuire, Joan Haslip, George Peabody Gooch
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Otto von Bismarck

Otto von Bismarck, Eberhard Kolb, Jonathan Rose
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A biography of the Prussian statesman who united the German people under one government and whose policies and influence were felt throughout Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Yasir Arafat

Rebecca Stefoff, Barry Rubin, Isabel Pisano
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A biography of the man who since 1969 has been chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, a group working to establish an Arab state in what was once Palestine and is now mostly in Israel.

Pol Pot

Rebecca Stefoff, Philip Short
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Philip Short observed Pol Pot at close quarters during the one and only official visit Pol ever made abroad, to China in 1975. He was struck by Pol Pot's charm and charisma, yet, soon after, the leader would emerge as the architect of one of the most radical and ruthless experiments in social engineering ever undertaken. His egalitarian utopia released a reign of terror that would result in one in every five Cambodians - more than a million people - perishing in the killing fields of from hunger. Why did it happen? How did an idealistic dream of justice and prosperity mutate into one of humanity's worst nightmares? To answer these questions, Short traveled through Cambodia, interviewing former Khmer Rouge leaders and sifting through previously closed archives around the world. Key figures, including Khlen Samphan and Ieng Sary, Pol Pot's brother-in-law and foreign minister, speak here for the first time. Philip Short's masterly narrative reveals how Pol Pot engineered his country's desolation, fashining the definitive portrait of the man who headed one of the most enigmatic and terrifying regimes of modern times. (back cover)

Paul von Hindenburg

Russell A. Berman
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Gamal Abdel Nasser

John DeChancie
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A biography of the popular Egyptian president who led the revolt that overthrew King Faruk in 1952 and established Egypt as a republic.

Juan Perón

John DeChancie
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Covers the life of the leader who became president of Argentina in 1946, was later deposed, and returned in triumph for another presidency after eighteen years of exile.

Faisal

Rebecca Stefoff
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A biography of the Saudi Arabian king who ruled from 1964 until his assassination in 1975 and who became, during his reign, an important world leader through his control of his country's vast oil resources.