World leaders past & present

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.

Presents a biography of the leader who worked to establish a national homeland for Jews in Palestine and served as Israel's first president in 1949.

A biography of the man who served twice as president of the Soviet Union and was head of the Communist Party there from 1964 until his death.

A biography of the eighteenth-century Prussian king whose firm government and military exploits earned him the title of "enlightened despot.".

A biography of the peasant boy who gained fame as a guerilla leader during World War II and, after establishing a Communist government in Yugoslavia, became that country's first President.

Examines the life of the leader who fought to establish a republic of China and unify the people under one stable government.

A biography of the wife of Louis VII of France, who divorced him to marry Henry II of England, after which strife ensued between the two countries which lasted some 400 years.

A biography of the Egyptian President who worked for peace in the Middle East.

Presents with photos and quotations the life story of Tenzin Gyatso, the present, though exiled, Dalai Lama of Tibet.

A biography of the prime minister of Cambodia.