This biographical dictionary contains 10,000 biographies supplemented with 2,000 quotations chosen to reveal what major figures thought about themselves and wha

Not only does this encyclopaedia present biographies for over 10,000 of the most important, topical and interesting people of all time, it also supplements thes

Profiles elected politicians and activists, trade unionists and spies, human rights campaigners and dictators, and pioneers of women's rights, in some 2,000 bio

Following his acquittal on charges of treason in 1958, Alfred Hutchinson decided to flee South Africa. One evening he said goodbye to the woman he loved, boarde