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A jubilant Moscow is celebrating the Soviet Union's victory over Hitler when gunshots ring out though the city's crowded streets. In the shadow of the Kremlin, a teenage boy and girl are found dead. But this is no ordinary tragedy, because these are no ordinary teenagers. As the children of high-ranking Soviet officials, they inhabit a rarefied world that revolves around the exclusive Josef Stalin Commune School 801. The school, which Stalin's own children attended, is an enclave of privilege - but, as the deaths reveal, one that hides a wealth of secrets.

Monstros é uma investigação a respeito da perversidade na História, uma crônica fascinante da depravação humana, uma lição que abrange três milênios sobre o bem e o mal, na qual o historiador best-seller Simon Sebag Montefiore apresenta sua seleção dos homens e mulheres mais perversos que já existiram: Tiranos e Imperatrizes, Conquistadores e Canibais, Prostitutas e Megalomaníacos, Torturadores e Assassinos em Série, Sedutoras e Traidores De Átila, o Huno, a Adolf Hitler; de Lucrécia Bórgia a Ivã, o Terrível; de Josef Stalin a Saddam Hussein...

In this exuberant collection, acclaimed historian Simon Sebag Montefiore takes us on a journey from ancient times to the 21st century. Some speeches are heroic and inspiring; some diabolical and atrocious. Some are exquisite and poignant; others cruel and chilling. The speakers themselves vary from empresses and conquerors to rock stars, novelists and sportsmen, dreamers and killers, from Churchill and Elizabeth I to Stalin and Genghis Khan, and from Michelle Obama and Cleopatra to Ronald Reagan, Nehru, and Muhammad Ali.

Written in History: Letters that Changed the World celebrates the great letters of world history, and cultural and personal life. Bestselling, prizewinning historian Simon Sebag Montefiore selects letters that have changed the course of global events or touched a timeless emotion—whether passion, rage, humor—from ancient times to the twenty-first century. Some are noble and inspiring, some despicable and unsettling, some are exquisite works of literature, others brutal, coarse, and frankly outrageous, many are erotic, others heartbreaking.

In this inspiring, horrifying, and accessible collection of short, entertaining, and vivid life stories, Simon Sebag Montefiore - one of our preeminent historians and a prizewinning writer - presents the giant characters who have changed the course of world history.

"Hvorfor er det hele så hemmeligt?" "Kan du ikke se det? Vi lever i sammensværgelsernes tidsalder. Alting er en sammensværgelse. Selv at tage på skovtur eller at læse digte." Hvis dine børn blev tvunget til at vidne imod dig, hvilke frygtelige hemmeligheder ville de så afsløre? Moskva 1945. Mens Stalin og hans stab fejrer sejren over Hitler, lyder der skud. På en bro i nærheden ligger en teenagedreng og -pige døde. De to er ikke hvem som helst, men børn af Ruslands magtelite, elever fra en af de mest eksklusive skoler i Moskva.

Escrito en la historia conmemora las mayores y más importantes cartas del panorama político, cultural, artístico, o de la vida privada de aquellos personajes célebres que influyeron en el devenir de nuestra historia.