Leon Trotsky (Lev Bronstein) was a leading figure of the Russian revolutions, organizer of the Red Army, and a central opponent of Stalin who was exiled and assassinated in Mexico City in 1940.
A concise modern account of Edward Gibbon's life, his education and travels, and the creation, publication, and lasting influence of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Peter Abelard (1079-1142) was a leading twelfth-century scholastic whose teaching, writings, and stormy relationship with Heloise shaped medieval theology, education, and literary history.
A disciplined general and Roman emperor from AD 14 to 37, Tiberius governed effectively early on but later withdrew from Rome, leaving power struggles to figures like Sejanus and ruling from Capri.