Niccolò Machiavelli
2 booksNiccolò Machiavelli was a Florentine diplomat, civil servant, historian and political writer. After the Medici restoration removed him from office, he wrote The Prince and other […]
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Nicias
2 booksNicias was an Athenian politician and general during the Peloponnesian War. He negotiated the Peace of Nicias but later became one of the commanders of the […]
Nikita Khrushchev
2 booksNikita Khrushchev emerged as Soviet leader after Stalin’s death and denounced aspects of Stalinist terror in his 1956 “Secret Speech.” He promoted limited cultural relaxation, agricultural […]
Olaf Guthfrithson
2 booksOlaf Guthfrithson was a Norse-Gaelic king associated with Dublin and Northumbria in the tenth century. He was one of the rulers involved in the great coalition […]
Owen Tudor
2 booksOwen Tudor was a Welsh courtier and soldier who formed a relationship, probably a secret marriage, with the widowed queen Catherine of Valois. Their descendants included […]
P. G. T. Beauregard
2 booksP. G. T. Beauregard is represented in the linked historical fiction through military command and battlefield decision-making, family, marriage and personal loyalty, and court politics and […]
Paul Revere
2 booksPaul Revere was a Boston silversmith, engraver and political activist who became a messenger for the patriot movement before the American Revolution. His ride on the […]
Penelope
2 booksPenelope is the wife of Odysseus in Homeric tradition and the central figure of the Ithacan household during his long absence. She delays remarriage by weaving […]
Pentawer
2 booksPentawer was an Egyptian prince involved in the harem conspiracy against Ramesses III. Judicial records indicate that the plot sought to place him on the throne; […]
Peter of Castile
2 booksPeter of Castile, often called Peter the Cruel or Peter the Just, was king of Castile in the fourteenth century. His conflict with his half-brother Henry […]