First Crusade
The Call from the East
«Scholarly and yet accessible, and unashamedly partisan, The First Crusade, as any vibrant history should, is bound to set a lot of feathers flying»
Daily Telegraph
Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of totally fresh sources Simon Sebag Montefiore Les mer
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Filled with Byzantine intrigue, in every sense this book is important, compellingly revisionist and impressive in its scholarly use of totally fresh sources Simon Sebag Montefiore
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9780099555032
- Utgivelsesår
- 2013
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Short-listed for Gladstone History Book Prize 2013 UK.
Anmeldelser
«Scholarly and yet accessible, and unashamedly partisan, The First Crusade, as any vibrant history should, is bound to set a lot of feathers flying»
Daily Telegraph
«A dazzling book, perfectly combining deep scholarship and easy readability. The most important addition to Crusading literature since Runciman»
«A nuanced and often counterintuitive story of power politics, international diplomacy and war and, ultimately that very rare thing - a truly fresh interpretation of an old story»
Time Out
«Frankopan's qualities as a historian and writer are of a high order»
BBC History Magazine
«Frankopan has written a remarkable book that makes as strong case as the incomplete and episodic evidence permits»
Literary Review