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# Titans of History: The Giants Who Made Our World

**Brand:** Simon Sebag Montefiore
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        			Simon Sebag Montefiore is a master storyteller (EVENING STANDARD)Sparkling biographical essays ... A tour of the good, the bad and the ugly (MAIL ON SUNDAY)Entertaining and informative. Full of offbeat, fascinating detail (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)Comprehensive, chilling and highly compelling. A first-class chronologically arranged catalogue that enagages as it teaches (DAILY EXPRESS)Compulsive reading ... We do not shudder at the depths to which men and women throughout history have sunk, but experience a piquant relish ... a book that reminds us how thin the veneer of civilisation is (THE TIMES)A survey of great historical figures favours villainy over goodness ... A compilation of short biographical profiles ... catering to our appalled fascination with evil. Monsters outnumber heroes. Stalin, the subject of Montefiore&apos;s superb two-volume biography, is the prototype for many of the maniacal autocrats whose rages and rampages are described here. A strutting parade of psychopathic dictators, warlords, malevolent dwarves ... Montefiore finds room for a few gods, one or two secular saints, American founding fathers, Lincoln and Churchill, and a smattering artists and scientists, but their achievements hardly manage to maintain the pretence of civilisation. What excites Montefiore is villainy ... and he does this with wicked verve (OBSERVER)Simon Sebag Montefiore is a master storytellerSparkling biographical essays ... A tour of the good, the bad and the uglyEntertaining and informative. Full of offbeat, fascinating detailComprehensive, chilling and highly compelling. A first-class chronologically arranged catalogue that enagages as it teaches
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
        	
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        			The history of the world told through the entertaining, horrifying and inspiring characters that everyone should know
				    	
					
        		
        		
        	
        
                
        
        
            
            
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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐ I was extremely grateful for the fact you can easily check out the meaning of words because I read ...
*by A***E on 14 May 2017*

This book is fascinating but I found it very irritating.  Each  "Titan" has their life and times described in manageable chunks, accurately as far as I know.  However, I was extremely grateful for the fact you can easily check out the meaning of words because I read it on a Kindle.  If I had been reading it as a book and had to look up a dictionary two or three times a page I would have given up after the 2nd chapter.  I'm fairly well read but for some reason the author needs to use totally obscure words that the normal person does not understand - frequently.  This book should be for the man in the street and the lay-out and the way it is actually written is easily understood but the use of these perplexing words is very annoying.  There is no need for it.  In every case there are several words that could have been used that would have made the reading experience of this fascinating book far more enjoyable.  He has written others but for this reason I won't be buying them

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Easy to put down (and pick up again!)
*by R***R on 22 March 2015*

This is a great book! I received it for Christmas from my step-daughter and just read a 'story' or two each night.  The book is arranged in historical order (oldest person first) with typically two or three pages per personal story.  It is important to note that not all of these Titans are nice guys -- some of them are genocidal maniacs who killed hundreds of thousands and in some cases millions!  I was surprised by the fact that I knew nothing of some of the villains but had at least heard of most of the good guys.  In any case, I used the book to relax before going to sleep and found the length of the individual stories to be perfect for that purpose.Each story is written in an almost conversational style that I found both informative and enjoyable.  I must admit to enjoying seeing this author on the BBC where he was obviously well informed but also knows how to tell a story.  I had also enjoyed his book about Jerusalem in which he treated the city as if it were a person.I enjoyed this book so much that this copy which I am reviewing was actually a gift to one of my sons, who, like me, has begun an interest in history that did not develop until well after high school and college.

### ⭐⭐⭐ Good potted history, bending too much to opinion in places.
*by M***X on 29 August 2017*

It's just OK. The author's list of 'Titans' is good and well chosen. They each get about 8 pages and, as the author promises, there's enough meat in there to give you an appreciable knowledge of the person in question and enough to whet your appetite to research further. The short biographies are very good and well researched in the early part of the book but, as they approach recent history, the author's own politics starts to creep in until, by the early 20th century, the book has lost its former neutrality and leans towards opinion and (dare I say it?) dustings of prejudice.That aside, if you want a good addition to the history section on your bookshelf, you could do worse than this.

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