About the book: 2001 / For history buffs and fans of the biographical genre, the Veche publishing house offers a collection of short biographies of all the monarchs of the world. The next volume is dedicated to the lives of the kings and emperors who reigned in Western Europe for thirteen centuries from the time of the “Holy Roman Empire” to the present day. On the pages of the book the reader will meet Charlemagne, Richard I the Lionheart, Philip IV the Fair, Frederick II the Great, Napoleon and many others.