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1) Napoleon
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A biography of the military genius who crowned himself Emperor of the French and whose empire covered most of western and central Europe.
4) Henry VIII
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A biography of the sixteenth-century English monarch who effected the separation of England from the Church of Rome.
5) Charlemagne
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Traces the life of the Frankish warrior and king who built a great empire in western Europe.
10) Haile Selassie
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A biography of the man known as Ras Tafari, emperor of Ethiopia during a forty-four year period, who gave that country its first written constitution.
11) King Arthur
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A biography of the legendary king of medieval Britain who became the central figure in a series of tales describing his own heroic deeds and those of his knights.
12) Kublai Khan
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A biography of the founder of the Mongol Dynasty in China.
13) James I
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A biography of the son of Mary, Queen of Scots, who was the first Stuart king of England, the sponsor of what is known as the King James Version of the Bible, and the monarch responsible for the migration of the Puritans to America in 1620.
16) King Hussein
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A biography of Hussein I, King of Jordan from 1952 to the present.
18) Tamerlane
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Traces the life of the Mongol leader who carved out a vast but short-lived empire in Asia.
19) Genghis Khan
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Traces the life of the chief of a small Mongol tribe who established a vast empire from Peking to the Black Sea in the twelfth century.
20) Hirohito
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A biography of the Japanese emperor who, following World War II, approved a constitution that changed his role from divine ruler to "symbol of the state" with political control going to elected representatives.
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