History's Monsters: 101 Villains is a non-fictional history book by British Author and Historian, Simon Sebag Montefiore (Jerusalem: The Biography, Young Stalin). It is the second volume in a two-part series of books, the first being 101 World Heroes: Great Men and Women Who Changed History. The book documents the horrific acts of 101 of the most evil men and women in history, starting with the murderous 19th-century queen, Jezebel, and ending with the al-Qaeda leader behind the September 11 terrorist attacks, Osama bin Laden.

The List edit

  1. Jezebel
  2. Nebuchadnezzar II
  3. Qin Shi Huang
  4. Marcus Licinius Crassus
  5. Herod the Great
  6. Livia
  7. Caligula
  8. Nero
  9. Domitian
  10. Commodus
  11. Caracalla
  12. Attila the Hun
  13. Theodora
  14. Wu Zetian
  15. Justinian II
  16. Pope John XII
  17. Basil II
  18. Hassan-i Sabbah
  19. Godfrey of Bouillon
  20. Andronikos I Komnenos
  21. Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester
  22. Genghis Khan
  23. John, King of England
  24. Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March
  25. Peter of Castile
  26. Timur
  27. Antipope Clement VII
  28. Richard II of England
  29. Gilles de Rais
  30. Tomas de Torquemada
  31. Vlad the Impaler
  32. Richard III of England
  33. Girolamo Savonarola
  34. Selim I
  35. Francisco Pizarro
  36. Hayreddin Barbarossa & Oruc Reis
  37. Lucrezia Borgia
  38. Hernan Cortes
  39. Henry VIII of England
  40. Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba
  41. Mary I of England
  42. Ivan the Terrible
  43. Humphrey Gilbert
  44. Sawney Bean
  45. Elizabeth Bathory
  46. Don Carlo Gesualdo
  47. Albrecht von Wallenstein
  48. Aurangzeb
  49. Titus Oates
  50. Nader Shah
  51. Maximilien de Robespierre
  52. Shaka
  53. Thug Behram
  54. Jack the Ripper
  55. William Walker
  56. Francisco Solano Lopez
  57. Empress Dowager Cixi
  58. Leopold II of Belgium
  59. Jacob H. Smith
  60. Lothar von Trotha
  61. Hawley Harvey Crippen
  62. Vladimir Lenin
  63. Pancho Villa
  64. Joseph Stalin
  65. Talaat Pasha
  66. Benito Mussolini
  67. Hideki Tojo
  68. Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
  69. Adolf Hitler
  70. Ante Pavelic
  71. Francisco Franco
  72. Mao Zedong
  73. Nikolai Yezhov
  74. Khorloogiin Choibalsan
  75. Marcel Petiot
  76. Al Capone
  77. Lavrentiy Beriya
  78. Heinrich Himmler
  79. Rudolf Hess
  80. Adolf Eichmann
  81. Hastings Banda
  82. Francois Duvalier
  83. Enver Hoxha
  84. Josef Mengele
  85. Kim Il-sung
  86. Alfredo Stroessner
  87. Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu
  88. Francisco Macias Nguema
  89. Pol Pot
  90. Idi Amin
  91. Mobutu Sese Seko
  92. Salvatore Riina
  93. Jim Jones
  94. Charles Manson
  95. Mengistu Haile Mariam
  96. Saddam Hussein
  97. Saparmurat Niyazov
  98. Slobodan Milosevic
  99. Pablo Escobar
  100. Osama bin Laden