Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and His Times - Radu R. Florescu, Raymond T. McNally [epub]

Dracula, Prince of Many Faces reveals the extraordinary life and times of the infamous Vlad "Dracul" Tepes of Romania (1431-1476), nicknamed the Impaler.

Dreaded by his enemies, emulated by later rulers like Ivan the Terrible, honored by his countrymen even today, Vlad Tepes was surely one of the most intriguing figures to have stalked the corridors of European and Asian capitals in the fifteenth century.

Dracula is the third book that Florescu and McNally, both historians at Boston College, have written about either the real Dracula or the legendary vampire. This scholarly work focuses almost exclusively upon the "real" Dracula, a 15th-century Romanian prince. The authors present him as a multifaceted figure, a national hero still revered for defending Romania from the Turks, yet also a psychopath who used his power indiscriminately to torture and murder thousands of his enemies and subjects.

Paperback: 261 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Revised edition (October 31, 1990)