From the Book - Regular Print
Alexander the Great and King Darius III: A Great Clash of Kings 10 --
Hannibal Barca and Scipio Africanus: Legends and Gentlemen 24 --
Gaius Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus: A Battle for the soul of Rome 36 --
William the Conqueror and King Harold Godwineson: Only One King Shall Rule 48 --
King Henry II and Thomas Becket: "Will No One Rid Me of this Turbulent Priest?" 62 --
King Richard I and King John: Brothers and Rivals 76 --
Pope Boniface VIII and Philip IV of France: The Epic Battle Between Body and Soul 88 --
Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro: Conquistador Rivals 98 --
Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots: Two Queens, One Realm 112 --
Charles XII of Sweden and Peter the Great of Russia: Death Struggle of the Northern Kings 128 --
Benedict Arnold and Horatio Gates: A Clash for Control 146 --
Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton: The Duel That Changed American History 160 --
Napoleon Bonaparte and the Duke of Wellington: So Alike, So Very Different 174 --
Earl of Lucan and the Earl of Cardigan: The Charge of the Light Brigade 188 --
Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone: Great Statesmen, Great Haters 204 --
Francisco "Pancho" Villa and Emiliano Zapata: No Common Cause 216 --
Adolf Hitler and Ernst Röhm: The Night of the Long Knives 228 --
Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky: The Doer vs. The Dreamer 244 --
Chiang Kai-Shek and Mao Zedong: Battle for a Nation 258 --
General Vasily Chuikov and Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus: Peasant vs. Bureaucrat 276 --
George S. Patton and Bernard Law Montgomery: The Warrior Against The Planner 294 --
Harry S. Truman and Douglas Macarthur: The President vs. The General 310 --
General VO Nguyen Giap and General Christian De Castries: The Struggle for Dien Bien Phu 324 --
John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon: Rivals for Presidential Power 338.