Ian Mortimer

The Greatest Traitor

The Life of Sir Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March

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Produktbeschreibung

The first biography of the rebel baron who deposed and murdered Edward II. One night in August 1323 a captive rebel baron, Sir Roger Mortimer, drugged his guards and escaped from the Tower of London.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK / Vintage
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 644659
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juni 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780099552222
• ISBN-10: 0099552221
• Artikelnr.: 29200354

Autorenporträt

Dr Ian Mortimer is the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England and The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England, as well as four critically acclaimed medieval biographies, and numerous scholarly articles on subjects ranging in date from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 1998. His work on the social history of medicine won the Alexander Prize (2004) and was published by the Royal Historical Society in 2009. He lives with his wife and three children in Moretonhampstead, on the edge of Dartmoor.

Rezensionen

Mortimer's book roars, races and sings... with a sense of passion and drama and an unrelenting pace Daily Telegraph