- Published: 1 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446413821
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
April Blood
- Published: 1 January 2011
- ISBN: 9781446413821
- Imprint: Vintage Digital
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 320
A spine-chilling political drama of conspiracy, murder and bloody revenge.
The Times
A riveting tale in which we can recognise analogies with our own world.
Financial Times
Sheds light on the whole apparatus of political powering Renaissance Florence.
Week
Captivating.
Times Literary Supplement
Elegant and incisive...a masterful reconstruction
Sunday Times
Can be read at the level of political treatise, cultural overview or sheer adventure story.
Literary Review
This is an outstanding book, rich in its insights, and written with verve and style...In a piece of bold craftsmanship, the author launches his narrative of the battle, then spools back to explore the psychological and cultural journey that brought France from her nadir in 1815, following the defeat of Napoleon, to her life-and-death struggle in the killing fields if Lorraine 101 years later.
Malcolm Brown, Guardian
This is a book as careful to touch its readers' emotions as it is to deepen their understanding.
Robert Tombs, Times Literary Supplement
It is a story that still has the power to shock and horrify...consistently intelligent and readable...an engaging and important book.
Hew Strachan, Sunday Times
Brilliantly told...magnificent...Piercing insight, controversial political analysis...telling character portrayal, historical and military study and individual human tragedy is all skilfully knit together in one seamless whole...a masterpiece.
Nigel Jones, BBC History
Wonderfully readable...has the ingredients of a Mafia thriller.
Daily Telegraph