“sebag montefiore”

Over 50 of the World's greatest speeches, the stories behind them, and biographies of each speaker, including: Elizabeth I; Charles I; Oliver Cromwell; George Washington; Napoleon; Emmeline Pankhurst; Marie Curie; Gandhi; Stalin; Winston Churchill; Charles de Gaulle; John F. Kennedy; Martin Luther K... More

ACCLAIM FOR ENIGMA "CRACKING STUFF...VIVID AND HITHERTO UNKNOWN DETAILS." -Sunday Times (London) "IN A CROWD OF BOOKS DEALING WITH THE ALLIED BREAKING OF THE WORLD WAR II CIPHER MACHINE ENIGMA, HUGH SEBAG-MONTEFIORE HAS SCORED A SCOOP." -Washington Post Winston Churchill called the cracking of th... More

Stalin remains one of the creators of our world - like Hitler, the personification of evil. Yet Stalin hid his past and remains mysterious. This enthralling biography that reads like a thriller finally unveils the secret but extraordinary journey of the Georgian cobbler's son who became the Red Tsar... More

Fifty years after his death, Stalin remains a figure of powerful and dark fascination. The almost unfathomable scale of his crimes-as many as 20 million Soviets died in his purges and infamous Gulag-has given him the lasting distinction as a personification of evil in the twentieth century. But thou... More

As a young guardsman, Grigory Potemkin caught the eye of Catherine the Great with a theatrical act of gallantry during the coup that placed her on the throne. Over the next thirty years he would become her lover, co-ruler, and husband in a secret marriage that left room for both to satisfy their sex... More