by Diane Ducret, Emmanuel Hecht · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266239233
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«Les derniers jours des dictateurs» is the historical essay by Diane Ducret and Emmanuel Hecht, in Pocket paperback (344 pages, in French).
The work reconstructs the final hours of the main dictators of the twentieth century, from Mussolini to Kim Jong-il, including Hitler, Stalin, Franco, Mao, Saddam Hussein and Gaddafi. Historians and journalists coordinated by Ducret and Hecht sign around twenty portraits covering half a century of political violence, assassinations and coups d'état.
The original edition was published in 2012; this French Pocket edition, with a foreword by Christian Makarian, was published in 2014.
Aimed at the general public interested in twentieth-century political history and the phenomenon of dictatorships.
Diane Ducret is a Franco-Belgian writer. She has published both non-fiction historical books and novels. Much of her writing concerns the historical experiences of women, including studies of women who were closely associated with notorious dictators or gangsters. She has also written comedic fiction, and worked as a writer and host for historical television series.
