Vlad III Dracula: The Life and Times of the Historical Dracula by Kurt Treptow
English | July 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 159211038X | 298 pages | True EPUB | 23.51 MB
English | July 1st, 2022 | ISBN: 159211038X | 298 pages | True EPUB | 23.51 MB
The fifteenth-century Romanian Prince Vlad III Dracula, also known as Vlad the Impaler, is among the most intriguing personalities in medieval history. Already during his lifetime, his true story became obscured by a veil of myths. As a result, he has been portrayed both as a bloody tyrant — who degenerated down throughout the centuries into the fictional vampire of the same name created by Bram Stoker at the end of the nineteenth century — and as a national and Christian hero who fought bravely to defend his native land and all of Europe against the invading Turkish infidels. Even in recent times, communist and nationalist historiography has continued to obscure the real history of Dracula.