Vlad Dracula: The Dragon Prince
by Michael Augustyn
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Most of the vast audience attracted to the subject of Dracula know him only in his fictional, one-dimensional form: vampire Yet the truth behind the historical character--voevode, warlord--of 15th C. Romania is at least as equally fascinating as any contrived account of his supernatural persona. and prisoner. His principality of Wallachia was caught between two voracious predators: the kingdom of Hungary and the Ottoman empire. They tried to break Dracula with overwhelming force and terror. show more But Dracula turned their own tactics against them, and against criminals and factions in his own land, earning the name Tepes-The Impaler-in the process. He annihilated 50,000 people--one-tenth of his own population. Cursed by his native Orthodox Christian Church, he indeed evolved into a legend. But even today he is Romania's Robin Hood. show lessTags
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- Vlad III Dracula
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- Fiction and Literature, Historical Fiction
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- 813 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English
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- DR240.5 .V553 .A84 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Balkan Peninsula History of Balkan Peninsula Romania History By period Early and medieval to 1601. Roman period
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