Research Catalog

Title

Badass : a relentless onslaught of the toughest warlords, vikings, samurai, pirates, gunfighters, and military commanders to ever live / Ben Thompson.

Author

Thompson, Ben

Publication

New York : Harper, c2009.

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Details

Description

xi, 334 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.

Summary

A humorous collection of history's most crushingly awesome figures to ever strap on a pair of chainmail gauntlets and run screaming into battle, includes Ramses II, Julius Caesar, Genghis Khan, and George S. Patton.

Alternative Title

Relentless onslaught of the toughest warlords, vikings, samurai, pirates, gunfighters, and military commanders to ever live

Subject

• Heroes > Biography
• Outlaws > Biography
• Courage
• Fortitude

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-332).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ramses II -- Leonidas -- Xenophon -- Alexander the Great -- Liu Ji -- Gaius Julius Ceasar -- The Surena -- Julia Agrippina -- Alaric the Bold -- Khalid bin Walid -- Justinian II -- Charles Martel -- Wolf the Quarrelsome -- William the Conqueror -- Harald Hardrada -- El Cid Compeador -- Tomoe Gozen -- Genghis Khan -- Vlad the Impaler -- Miyamoto Musashi -- Peter the Great -- Blackbeard -- Anne Bonny -- Peter Francisco -- Horatio Nelson -- Napoleon Bonaparte -- Agustina of Aragon -- Bass Reeves -- Nikola Tesla -- Manfred von Richthofen -- Henry Lincoln Johnson -- Eliot Ness -- Jack Churchill -- Irina Sebrova -- Bhanbhagta Gurung -- George S. Patton -- Chrarles Hathcock -- Bruce Lee -- Jonathan Netanyahu.

ISBN

9780061749445 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2009011502

OCLC

• 310398955
• SCSB-11643738

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library