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1) Dictators
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Revolutionaries, despots and tyrants - over 40 of the most totalitarian leaders in the world.
This ebook has been made from the 2007 edition.
Want to know which dictator ruled the longest, who added his own name to his country's national anthem, who killed his own mother, who, it is estimated, was responsible for killing about a tenth of the global population? Read about revolutions and wars; family politics and betrayals.
This book covers 40 dictators...
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"Some years ago, the author, Jay Nordlinger, was in Albania. He was there to give a talk under State Department auspices. Albania was about ten years beyond the collapse of Communism. For almost 40 years, the country had been ruled by one of the most brutal dictators in history: Enver Hoxha. Nordlinger wondered whether this dictator had had children. He had indeed: three of them. And they were still in Albania, with their 3 million fellow citizens....
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 2
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Chapters: Karl Marx; Friedrich Engels; Lenin; Leon Trotsky; Joseph Stalin; Alexander Kerensky.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 4
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The Iron Fist, Dictators of the 20th Century explores the lives of the most notorious tyrants of the modern era such The Sinews of Peace, On the Run, The Long March, Comrade Walter, Tito's Partisans, Bringer of Light, People's Republic.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 5
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The Iron Fist, Dictators of the 20th Century explores the lives of the most notorious tyrants of the modern era in chapters such Shirtless One, Trujillo, Evita, Invitation to Revolution, Guerrillas in the Mist, Communist Cuba, Return from Limbo, Butcher of Uganda, Islamic Socialism.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 3
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In this episode, The Iron Fist, Dictators of the 20th Century explores the lives of the most notorious tyrants of the modern era such Fascism, Benito Mussolini, Adolf Hitler, General Francisco Franco, Hirohito.
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Dictators of the 20th Century volume 1
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Chapters: Machiavelli, The Hot Head, King Emperor, The Last Emperor, The Prince & the Iron Chancellor, Nicholas, A Man of Peace, Bloody Sunday, Battleship Potemkin, A Fleet of My Own, If My Grandmother had been Alive, The Great War, Revolution is in the Air, Down with the Tsar, Abdication, What's in a Name, What? What?, Fallen Crown, I am Ashamed to be a German, Moving Towards its Close.
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The first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. The Debt of Dictators is the first film to expose the nefarious lending of billions of dollars by multinational banks and international financial institutions to brutal dictators throughout the world. Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Adolfo Perez Esquivel, asserts that transnational...
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Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe. Although Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been deposed, North Korea's Kim Jong-il continues to attract attention on the world stage; at the same time, other dictatorships, led by royal families, military juntas, and single political parties, persist in repressing and brutalizing their citizens without ever attracting anything...
13) Devil's gate
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A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
14) Freelance
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Ex-special forces operative Mason Pettis is stuck in a dead-end desk job when he reluctantly takes on a freelance gig as a favor from an old army buddy to provide private security for washed-up journalist Claire Wellington as she interviews the ruthless but impeccably dressed dictator, Juan Venegas. When a military coup breaks out just as she's about to get the scoop of a lifetime, the unlikely trio must figure out how to survive the jungle AND each...
15) Total recall
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Welcome to Rekall, the company that can turn your dreams into real memories. For a factory worker named Douglas Quaid, even though he's got a beautiful wife who he loves, the mind-trip sounds like the perfect vacation from his frustrating life. But when the procedure goes horribly wrong, Quaid becomes a hunted man.
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After the guns fell silent in Western Europe, border wars and the fight for self-determination continued in the East. Take a look at the major events after World War I, including the little-known Soviet-Polish war, forcible population exchanges throughout the region, and the rise of dictators..
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Six smart and imaginative people form a book club to discuss a list of politically significant fiction from the 20th-century. They examine the qualities of democrats in portraits of Lincoln by Gore Vidal and William Safire and Stuff Happens, a satirical play about George W. Bush's war on Iraq in 1982. They analyze books about demagogues, including Robert Penn Warren's All the Kings Men and Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here. They talk about dictators...
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The U.S. government has a habit of supporting brutal (and comically outrageous) dictators. This book offers 20 current examples, together with some background on historical patterns, some explanation for why this happens, and a proposal to put an end to it. As documented here, the U.S. government arms, trains, and funds all variety of oppressive governments, not just dictatorships. The choice to focus on dictatorships in this book was not made merely...
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Galtieri, Lukashenka, and Putin are some of the dictators whose untrammeled personal power has been seen as typical of the dog-eat-dog nature of leadership in authoritarian political systems. This book provides an innovative argument that, rather than being characterized by permanent
insecurity, fear, and arbitrariness, the leadership of dictatorships is actually governed by a series of rules. The rules are identified, and their operation is shown...
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The New York Times best-selling author of The Men Who United the States traces the geological history of the Pacific Ocean to assess its relationship with humans and indelible role in the modern world.
A colorful and provocative exploration of the modern Pacific Ocean--what it has been, and the grip it holds on our future. Simon Winchester tackles this "oceanic behemoth of eye-watering complexity" by focusing on key moments since 1950 that speak...
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