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Slaves to Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 110 ratings — published
Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 203,835 ratings — published 2004
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundred-Year-Old Man, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.82 — 308,013 ratings — published 2009
The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.37 — 296,078 ratings — published 1965
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,267,324 ratings — published 1947
Einstein: His Life and Universe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.16 — 206,025 ratings — published 2007
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.06 — 86,066 ratings — published 2004
Napoleon: A Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.26 — 29,663 ratings — published 2014
Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.24 — 88,007 ratings — published 2011
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.05 — 152,451 ratings — published 2003
Hidden Figures (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.96 — 115,438 ratings — published 2016
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.19 — 71,359 ratings — published 1998
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 80,150 ratings — published 2005
Cleopatra: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.73 — 124,560 ratings — published 2010
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (Theodore Roosevelt, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.22 — 62,030 ratings — published 1979
Caesar: Life of a Colossus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.24 — 13,547 ratings — published 2006
The Romanov Sisters: The Lost Lives of the Daughters of Nicholas and Alexandra (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.89 — 24,754 ratings — published 2014
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.08 — 381,344 ratings — published 2001
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.00 — 772,275 ratings — published 2003
Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.94 — 108,867 ratings — published 2011
The Other Boleyn Girl (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #9)
by (shelved 4 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 516,916 ratings — published 2001
The Winter Palace (Catherine #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.60 — 14,596 ratings — published 2012
The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.30 — 141,216 ratings — published 2020
The Woman They Could Not Silence: One Woman, Her Incredible Fight for Freedom, and the Men Who Tried to Make Her Disappear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.29 — 43,732 ratings — published 2021
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.17 — 84,920 ratings — published 2010
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.28 — 202,858 ratings — published 2005
Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.15 — 13,456 ratings — published 2003
Lenin the Dictator (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.25 — 2,855 ratings — published 2017
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.15 — 39,007 ratings — published 1998
The Undefeated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.62 — 7,455 ratings — published 2019
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.21 — 470,536 ratings — published 2020
Code Name Hélène (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.40 — 86,472 ratings — published 2020
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 70,293 ratings — published 2019
The Aviator's Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.91 — 77,266 ratings — published 2013
Lincoln in the Bardo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.75 — 181,708 ratings — published 2017
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.12 — 73,456 ratings — published 1992
Marie Antoinette: The Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.94 — 38,781 ratings — published 2001
Sophie Scholl and the White Rose (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,692 ratings — published 1986
Doc (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.00 — 17,679 ratings — published 2011
Little House in the Big Woods (Little House, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.21 — 289,051 ratings — published 1932
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,144 ratings — published 1791
Alexander the Great (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,196 ratings — published 2010
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,088,858 ratings — published 2011
Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.23 — 30,107 ratings — published 1967
The Wives of Henry VIII (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.11 — 19,232 ratings — published 1992
Martin's Big Words: The Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.33 — 12,888 ratings — published 2001
The Life of Elizabeth I (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.03 — 32,884 ratings — published 1998
In the Time of the Butterflies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.15 — 81,074 ratings — published
Madame Tussaud (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 3.97 — 22,581 ratings — published 2011
Alexander the Great (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as historical-figures)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,524 ratings — published 1962
“Heydrich's life therefore offers a uniquely privileged, intimate and organic perspective on some of the darkest aspects of Nazi rule, many of which are often artificially divided or treated separately in the highly specialized literature on the Third Reich: the rise of the SS and the emergence of the Nazi police state; the decision-making processes that led to the Holocaust; the interconnections between anti-Jewish and Germanization policies; and the different ways in which German occupation regimes operated across Nazi-controlled Europe. On a more personal level, it illustrates the historical circumstances under which young men from perfectly ‘normal’ middle-class backgrounds can become political extremists determined to use ultra-violence to implement their dystopian fantasies of radically transforming the world.”
― Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
― Hitler's Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
“He died taking mercury pills that he thought would make him immortal," Tang Taizong said.
"So did you!" Qin Sho Haung yelped without looking at him.
"Allegedly! Sources differ!"
"You know what you did!”
― Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor
"So did you!" Qin Sho Haung yelped without looking at him.
"Allegedly! Sources differ!"
"You know what you did!”
― Zachary Ying and the Dragon Emperor
