They are a rogues' gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history. From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong-il of North Korea; these are the psychopaths, the heartless ideologues, the greedy, the cruel, and sometimes the just plain mad individuals who have seized control of their country and inflicted appalling suffering on their people.

They are a rogues' gallery of the most notorious despots in recent history. From Hitler to Saddam Hussein, from Stalin to Kim Jong-il of North Korea; these are the psychopaths, the heartless ideologues, the greedy, the cruel, and sometimes the just plain mad individuals who have seized control of their country and inflicted appalling suffering on their people.