V. Fine Used, Price Clipped. 279pp. Ilstd. With B/w Plts. Endpaper Maps. Vividly Readable And Impeccable Researched This Is A Biography Of Stature And Distinction About A Man Who, By Coupling Extraordinary Vision With Enormous Energy And Will-power, Created A Modern State From The Medieval Relic Which He Inherited. This Is A Story Of A Man Who Built An Army Out Of A Rabble, Was Ruthless In His Demands And Yet Asked For Nothing That He Would Not Do Himself. His Son Perished Under Torture, The Lover Of His First Wife Was Impaled And Took Three Days To Die In Agony, And He Was Known Personally To Undertake The Execution Of Delinquent Subjects. 1st Edn