History's Last Stand

Résumé du livre

The last gasps, fatal falls and fateful final gambles of heroes, despots, empires and civilizations. As the millennium races relentlessly toward its conclusion, it is comforting to know that humanity has survived countless epochal ends and historic finales. In this fascinating ... volume, popular historians Gerard and Patricia Del Re present an astonish collection: from the downfall of kings and gansters to the destructions of great civilizations -- people, places, wars and eras that went down in glory or in ignominy ... and the not-so-graceful falls from grace of the once high and mighty.