Biography • Svjetska povijest

Čudovišta: Zlo i zločinci u svjetskoj povijesti

Simon Sebag Montefiore

A richly illustrated "who's who" guide to the world of the wicked and cruel, it is a chronicle of human depravity over the past three millennia.

The book briefly portrays 101 villains. Among them there are tyrants and empresses, conquerors and cannibals, gangsters and maniacs, torturers and serial killers, as well as temptresses and traitors. The book was written in collaboration with John Bew and Maryna Frampton.

Original title

Monsters

Translation

Ivan Zorić, Sandra Mlađenović

Dimensions

25 x 19 cm

Pages

320

Publisher

Europapress holding, Zagreb, 2009.

Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.

Language: Croatian.

ISBN

978-9-53300-135-7

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