Michel Schmidt từ Lower Ansty, Dorchester, Dorset , UK

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05/24/2024

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Michel Schmidt Sách lại (10)

2018-04-27 00:31

Sổ Tay Sử Dụng Đàn Ông - Tập 2 Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Lam Bạch Sắc

Another 5 star biography from Ian Mortimer. I read 'The Perfect King', published in 2004, recently, and have now devoured 'The Greatest Traitor', published in 2003. So I've gone against the chronology of history and the authors work. I can't recommend Ian Mortimer's two books highly enough. The picture that has come down the centuries of Roger Mortimer as the power hungry traitor is shown here to be a very shallow understanding of the man. The Mortimer was a feudal lord simply caught up in the ruinous reign of Edward II and his 'favourites', firstly Piers Gaveston and then Hugh Despenser. Roger Mortimer's testosterone adrenelin fuelled life and career beats any Hollywood Errol Flynn character. Merely a baron's son, he fought at Bannockburn, rose to Lieutenant and defeated the Bruce faction in Ireland. Forced by the machinations of Despenser, he became a rebel, which ended with him incarcerated in the Tower of London. In the nick of time, before the nick of an axe, he escaped, to be an exile in France. He returns, as the lover of Edward's estranged Queen Isabella, and leads the first successful invasion of England since The Conqueror. If all that isn't enough...that is when this fantastic story really takes off, with a medieval conspiracy theory of the deposed Edward II to beat them all! The hidden truths are expertly laid before the reader with regard to the chronicles accounts of what happened at Berkeley Castle and after. The final climax comes with Roger Mortimer caught in a Catch 22. Unable to relinquish his hold on the centre of government, as protector of Edward III, fighting ever more desperately to cling onto the reins of power, his Queen and his secrets. Perhaps I should have read Ian Mortimers two books in the correct order. Either way they are both compulsive, unrelenting page turners.

Người đọc Michel Schmidt từ Lower Ansty, Dorchester, Dorset , UK

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.