Hawkwood : Diabolical Englishman

Informationen zum Autor Frances Stonor Saunders is the author of the bestselling Hawkwood, and of Who Paid the Piper? , a cultural history of the Cold War that has been translated into ten languages and was awarded the Royal Historical Society's Gladstone Memorial Prize. Her most recent book is The Woman who Shot Mussolini . Her writing has appeared in the Guardian , the New Statesman and Areté . She lives in London. Klappentext The hugely acclaimed, best-selling life of Hawkwood, one of the outstanding figures of English and European history. John Hawkwood was an Essex man who became the greatest mercenary in an age when soldiers of fortune flourished - an age that also witnessed the first stirrings of the Renaissance. Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman , by Frances Stonor Saunders, is the first biography of the mercenary John Hawkwood for over a century, from the author of Who Paid the Piper?: The CIA and the Cultural Cold War and The Woman Who Shot Mussolini. Zusammenfassung The hugely acclaimed, best-selling life of Hawkwood, one of the outstanding figures of English and European history. John Hawkwood was an Essex man who became the greatest mercenary in an age when soldiers of fortune flourished - an age that also witnessed the first stirrings of the Renaissance.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Frances Stonor Saunders, Frances Stonor Saunders
• Verlag: Faber & Faber
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 07.07.2005
• EAN: 9780571219094
• ISBN: 978-0-571-21909-4
• Seiten: 384
• Abmessung: 125 mm x 195 mm x 27 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sachbuch; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, HISTORY / Europe / France, HISTORY / Europe / Italy, Italy, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, European history: Renaissance