Dominic Lieven is an Honorary Fellow and an Emeritus Fellow of Trinity College Cambridge, a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He previously taught Russian Studies at the London School of Economics for thirty-three years. His book Russia Against Napoleon won the Wolfson Prize for History (UK) and the Prix Napoleon (France).
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A dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world. From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE... SEE MORE