Vlad The Impaler

In the biography “ Dracula Prince Of Many Faces-His Life And TImes,” by Radu R. Florescu and Raymond T. McNally, the authors try to piece together a mysterious time period in Transylvanian history and analyze who “Dracula,” also known as “Vlad The Impaler,” truly was in his life and what atrocities he committed. One of the most interesting facts that can be drawn from the book is dracula’s second most preferred torture method, trap doors, “which he used to drop wretches cunningly on the stakes below”[Florescu, McNally, 105]. Along with intricate artwork that was included in the book, the authors used; his personality, the state of his current realm, and even went as far as to provide accounts of the intricate methods of torture, my personal

The lesson that can be learned is that without cruel acts, or people in history the world as we know it would not be the same as it is today. In fact this is very relevant historically because during the books some very important information w as discussed. Some of that being how the world in the current day could have been entirely Muslim. This can be supported by a plethora of information that was provided in the book, for example “had central Europe backed out on defending against Muslim expansionist positions, the Muslim empire would have spanned across the Atlantic seaboard”[35]. Imagine if that had occurred; the whole crisis in the Middle East would likely be less prevalent, or even people could be wearing turbans in the Middle Eastern style, or to our culture obscure head wrappings called hijabs. In theory world history could have been entirely different if Vlad had not held off his

For example, Stocker came up with “Dracula’s” persona after collecting rumors of Vlad drinking blood from some of the Slavic folklore, while in all reality he didn't drink blood in the first place. So if I were to give my personal opinion on the book I would say that it was great, but it in general ruined other books for me as stated previously, so I Would only recommend this book to people whom like the historical view of “Dracula,”and not the fictitious perspective. This also applies to friends, although I doubt any of my friends would even consider enjoying this book. Furthermore If one could find a “hook” in this book it would probably be in the mid second chapter of the book, it gives a general overview of the medevil torture methods that the Prince used, from this I derived the rating that I gave the book which was a solid four stars because it did have some plot holes in the battles that they could have elaborated on