History's Monsters: 101 Villains from Vlad the Impaler to Adolf Hitler

Even though this book has a different tittle than the other Monsters book that was written by the same author, it is the exact same book. I bought both at the same time and when I realized that they were the same I was disappointed, but it was a fun book to read. The list was great. It has the usual guys like Hitler, Mao, Caligula, Joseph Mengele,etc, but this book also has savages that are poorly known but are just as bad like Lavrenti Beria, Nikolai Yezhov, Godfrey of Bouillon, Baron Ungern von Sternberg, and Lothar von Trotha. Though there are a few people in here that I would not choose like Jezebel and Lucrezia Borgia (and yet her brother Cesare Borgia isn't here). There are a few guys missing like Ruhollah Khomeini, Ilse Koch, Shiro Ishii, Pedro Lopez, Albert Fish, Augusto Pinochet, and Joseph Goebbels, and Taliban leader Mullah Omar. Overall though, this is a great book on history's greatest villains.

If you're a history buff looking for a ton of information compacted into a bullet point narrative, this is exactly what you're looking for. The author does an excellent job of highlighting both major and minor facts of each subject's life while remaining divorced from personal commentary. I also recommend his companion book on the best of humanity.

Awesome book to read and ponder. Things in the world that I did not know even existed. Great read, and I recommend it to anyone that loves history or villains/monsters of society.

Got to me fast! Excited to read it.

Interesting book but find the errors in it very distracting and inexcusable. For example, Lucretia Borgia was born in 1480 and was married for the first time in 1439 (should be 1493) (p. 124) and on the same page it says she died in 1514 (should be 1519).

- The information is brief but fascinating. Each villain is described in one or two pages with one or two drawings or photos. All this data can be easily found on the internet if you know these people names i.e. Ivan the Terrible. I don't know most of their names.- I'm sure the photos and pictures here are sharper and more beautiful than the ones you can find on the Internet.- It's worth reading. I spent 5 hours reading it in the local library.