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

320 pp. What is Evil? How do we recognize it? Can we learn from it? History's Monsters is a survey of wickedness in human history, a fascinating chronicle of human depravity, a lesson in good and evil spanning three millennia, in which bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents his selection of history's most evil men and women.