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Presents the life and accomplishments of the Egyptian pharaoh, believed to be the pharaoh of the Exodus, whose reign lasted for sixty-seven years and resulted in the expansion of Egypt's borders.

Traces the life of Pope John Paul II from his birth as Karol Wojtyle in Poland in 1920, to his death in Rome in 2005, following his career through the Catholic Church, and looking at some of the most significant challenges he faced along the way.

Presents an overview of Montezuma's life as well as his influence on history and the world.

A brief biography of the controversial Empress of Russia, Catherine the Great, that describes her life, extent of her vast kingdom, and how she sought to improve life for the Russian people.

Draws upon new forensic evidence and newly released Russian Secret Service records to reveal the truth about the proposed British rescue of the Rusian Imperial Family and their eventual murder by the Ural Bolsheviks.

In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia. The site was a few miles from the Ipatiev House where the Tsar and his family, and retainers, had been murdered seventy-three years before. Authenticating these bones as those of the Romanovs added yet another chapter to the Russian Revolution of 1917. But when all the testing was done, and the bones were authenticated as those of the Russian royal family, it was discovered that two of the children were missing: one daughter and the son, Alexis, the tsarevich. Which daughter it was could not be determined but it was either Marie or Anastasia. After the bones were identified, fresh rumors persisted that Anna Anderson, who for sixty years had maintained she was Anastasia, really was the only surviving member of the royal family.

In alternating chapters, Grand Duchesses Olga, Tatiana, Maria, and Anastasia tell how their privileged lives as the daughters of the Tsar in early twentieth-century Russia are transformed by World War and revolution.