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4) Joan of Arc
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Chronicles the experiences of the peasant girl who led a French army against the English, was burned at the stake for witchcraft, and became a saint.
5) Adolf Hitler
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A biography of Adolf Hitler from his solitary boyhood in Austria to his bizarre death in Berlin.
7) Fidel Castro
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A biography of the man who became dictator of Cuba in 1959 after a successful revolution against Batista's military dictatorship and reorganized the country into a Communist state.
12) Cleopatra
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A biography of the Egyptian queen who gained and maintained power over her kingdom through her alliance with Julius Caesar and later Marc Antony.
13) Julius Caesar
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A biography of the Roman general and statesman whose brillant military leadership helped make Rome the center of a vast empire.
14) Woodrow Wilson
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A biography of the President who led us through World War I and whom historians consider one of the three of four most successful Presidents.
15) 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.
16) Joseph Stalin
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English
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The life story of the revolutionary who became leader of Communist Russia.
18) Corazon Aquino
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A biography of the woman who rose to political prominence after the death of her husband and was elected president of the Philippines in 1986.