And he follows the bloody trail of Stalin as he ruthlessly pursues the one man who stands between him and ultimate power over Russias millionsLenins favorite, the brilliant, idealistic, and fatally flawed Trotsky. He asks, for instance, what was at the heart of the bitter, years-long feud between Queen Elizabeth I and her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots? Was it a religious battle between the Protestant monarch and Marys pious Catholicism, as on the surface it seemedor something more personal between the ambitious Virgin Queen and her wild and sexually impetuous counterpart?Įvans takes us to colonial America to find out how two of the new nations most intelligent and influential founding fathers≪aron Burr and Alexander Hamiltonwound up dueling to the death like common hooligans. Evans offers us an in-depth look at the personalities involved in the conflicts and the behind-the-scenes circumstances that caused these rivalries to take hold and fester. In Great Feuds in History, bestselling author Colin Evans puts us in the middle of ten of historys most significant struggleshigh-stakes personal conflicts that had a lasting impact on the societies around them and on the generations that followed. Edgar Hoover against martin Luther King Jr., these ruthless, single-minded, and sometimes murderous personal battles have inflamed nations, destroyed lives, and altered the course of history. From the backwoods sniping of the Hatfields versus the McCoys to the backhanded tactics of J. Ever since Cain and Abel, feuds between the mighty and the famous have exercised a powerful hold on the public imagination.

Great Feuds in History by Colin Evans