Vlad Dracula: The Impaler - Softcover

Ernst, Albert A

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1069389943 ISBN 13: 9781069389947

Publisher: Cymmrodorion Publishing, 2025

Synopsis

1456, the night of Vlad's coronation: a dastardly plot, a joint venture between the Ottoman Empire and Catholic Hungary to kill the Impaler's beloved, sets off some of the worst atrocities in history, enshrining the name Dracula as a synonym for terror.

He drank the blood of his victims, and filled the castles of the land with wretches destined for the stake: Scourge of the Saxons, champion of the peasants, national hero who saved his country from Islamic conquest, Vlad was all of these, and much, much more... His name has become a byword for cruelty, Vlad's draconian policies the horror of Europe.

But who was the man behind the legend? Written off by historians, the Dacians were thought to have vanished immediately after the Roman conquest of Dacia, but Vlad, Son of the Devil, would revive the ancient Gaulish pride, bringing hope to the oppressed Wallachs of Transylvania through a dastardly series of impalements: he would become known in Romanian as Vlad Tepeş, the Impaler! A man more terrifying than any vampire.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cymmrodorion Publishing
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1069389943
• ISBN 13: 9781069389947
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 406