101 World Heroes

Resumen del libro

In "101 World Heroes", bestselling historian Simon Sebag Montefiore presents his personal selection of the 100 most heroic figures from the pages of world history. Emperors and queens, soldiers and statesmen, religious leaders and philosophers rub shoulders with composers and poets, scientists and explorers, artists and storytellers from three millennia. All are united not just by what they did in their own lifetimes, but also by the enduring legacy they have bequeathed to the sum of human experience and achievement.

The book is illustrated throughout with maps, diagrams, paintings and photographs, and an appendix celebrates a further 100 individual deeds of heroism with a special claim to immortality.The heroes include: Ramses the Great, Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, King Solomon, Elizabeth I of England, Winston Churchill, The Buddha, Tokugawa Ieyasu, M. K. Gandhi, Aristotle, William Shakespeare, F.D. Roosevelt, Alexander the Great, Thomas Jefferson, David Ben Gurion, Hannibal Voltaire, George Orwell, Jesus, Napoleon Bonaparte, Elvis Presley, Marcus Aurelius, Horatio Nelson, J. F. Kennedy, Mohammed, Duke of Wellington, John Paul II, Charlemagne, Abraham Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Leo Tolstoy, and Charles Darwin.

Biografía del autor

Simon Sebag Montefiore estudió Historia en el Gonville x{0026}amp; Caius College de Cambridge. Durante la década de 1990 viajó por toda la antigua Unión Soviética, especialmente por el Cáucaso, Ucrania, Asia central y escribió sobre Rusia para el Sunday Times, el New York Times y el Spectator, entre otros periódicos. Ha presentado documentales para la televisión y ha escrito dos novelas, así como algunos ensayos, entre los que destacan Kingx{0026} x02019;s Parade (1991) y Prince of Princes: the Life of Potemkin (2000), nominado a premios de biografía Samuel Johnson, Duff Cooper y Marsh. En Crítica ha publicado Llamadme Stalin (2007), La corte del zar rojo (2004), Titanes de la historia (2012) y Jerusalén. La biografía (2011).