Provides descriptions of people throughout history who have--of their own choice--commited acts of evil.

History is blighted by the deeds of many men - Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Joseph Stalin, Papa Doc Adolf Hitler, Al Capone, the Kray twins and many others. Their cruelty

Evil is a fact of life. We can see it, not only in the reigns of Stalin and Hitler, but also in everyday crimes like murder, rape and assault -- quite apart fro

Presented with accounts of genocide and torture, we ask how people could bring themselves to commit such horrendous acts. A searching meditation on our all-too-

Monsters presents, in chronological order, grimly fascinating profiles of 101 notorious and profoundly sinister individuals whose actions have one thing in comm