Rebel Leaders
Published on 1. January 2007
304 pages
978-1-74266-477-4 (ISBN)
Description
Rebel Leaders focuses on the world-shaping, powerful arena of politics and warfare, looking at those revolutionaries throughout the centuries who have changed the course of history. Since ancient times, rebel leaders have fought against oppressive colonial masters, autocratic tyrants, crushing military regimes or rule by supreme monarchs and emperors. Other rebels have fought for causes less noble. Some of them have succeeded in overthrowing their enemy and establishing themselves and instituting their political vision-sometimes only briefly, sometimes for their lifetime, as in the case of Fidel Castro. Some, like George Washington, have been handed ultimate power yet refused the temptation of absolute rule. Rebel Leaders examines seventeen intriguing figures who have fought the state and won.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Sydney
Australia
Publishing group
Murdoch Books
File size
31,32 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-74266-477-4 (9781742664774)
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Content
- Intro
- TITLE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 01 OLIVER CROMWELL: The reluctant revolutionary
- 02 GEORGE WASHINGTON: First in war, first in peace
- 03 MAXIMILIEN ROBESPIERRE: The incorruptible patriot
- 04 FRANÇOIS TOUSSAINT L'OUVERTURE: Astute strategist
- 05 SIMÓN BOLÍVAR: The Liberator
- 06 BERNARDO O'HIGGINS: Brave soldier, inept politician
- 07 VLADIMIR ILICH LENIN: Leading Comrade
- 08 MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATÜRK: Father of the Turks
- 09 MENACHEM BEGIN: Zionist freedom fighter
- 10 MAO ZEDONG: The successful organiser
- 11 HO CHI MINH: Revolutionary and icon
- 12 FIDEL CASTRO: From gangster to national hero
- 13 POL POT: The smiling assassin
- 14 RUHOLLAH KHOMEINI: The Ayatollah
- 15 ROBERT MUGABE: Two eyes for one eye
- 16 NELSON MANDELA: Freedom fighter to statesman
- 17 YASIR ARAFAT: The great survivor
- EPILOGUE: Fatherless revolutionaries
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PICTURE CREDITS
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- COPYRIGHT
