Charles I of Austria
He’s one of the five longest-reigning monarchs in the history of the world. Emperor Franz…
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Ivan the Terrible: the First Stalin
He’s a man known to history literally as ‘the Terrible’. Ivan IV was the first…
Puyi: The Last Emperor of China
In the winter of 1911-1912, a political earthquake in Asia brought one of our last…
Alexander Kerensky and the Russian Revolution Before Lenin
If you are a film buff, you should be familiar with the early Soviet movie…
Spartacus: The Slave Who Made Rome Tremble
According to legend, Spartacus’s wife walked in on her sleeping husband one night to find…
Baron Amedeo Guilet: The Private War of the Devil Commander
Some months ago, we published a Biographics on Italian WWII navy commander Junio Valerio Borghese.…
Robert Hanssen: The FBI Mole who Spied for the KGB
Why do people spy on their own allies? What motivates traitors? US Intelligence officials have…
Tiberius: The Reluctant Emperor
Roman Emperors were men who wielded immense power in a wide variety of ways. Some…
Sigmund Freud: the father of psychoanalysis
At the dawn of the 20th Century, one young doctor in Vienna developed a theory…
Bass Reeves
It’s a cold autumn night, sometime in the late 1870s, somewhere in the Western District…
William Magear “Boss” Tweed, the Tiger of Tammany
Author: Debra Kelly New York City. The Big Apple. It isn’t the capital of the…
Copernicus: A Revolution of Astronomical Proportions
It is very rare that a book can come out and single-handedly change humanity’s understanding…