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Monsters Have Strange Interests
- History's worst people have hidden, bizarre interests that reveal surprising facets of their personalities.
- These strange details can provide a more nuanced understanding of who they were beyond their atrocities.
Reporter Meets Dictators' Victims
- Robert Evans reported from conflict zones and met people who lived under dictatorships.
- These experiences showed him that history's villains were far more complex than portrayed in school.
Dictators’ Strange Hobbies Revealed
- Saddam Hussein wrote an obscure romance novel amid his horrific reign.
- Hitler based WWII strategies on children’s books he obsessively read.