Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen. Lucy Hughes-Hallett

• Тип: Текст
• Автор: Lucy Hughes-Hallett
• Издательство: HarperCollins(2019)
• ISBN: 9780007404674
• Страниц: 895
• Язык: Английский

• Жанры: Биографии и мемуары

From the author of ‘The Pike’ – winner of the 2013 Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction – a compelling story of heroism told through eight famous lives that span from Achilles to Sir Francis Drake.Beginning beneath the walls of Troy, ending in 1930s Europe, ‘Heroes’ is a compelling evocation of heroism through eight famous lives – Achilles, Odysseus, Alcibiades, Cato, El Cid, Francis Drake, Wallenstein and Garibaldi.Not necessarily all good – sometimes quite the reverse – but all great, they possessed a charisma, a strength of will powerful enough to persuade those around them that they alone could do the incredible and unprecedented.It is a story of morality and dictatorship; money and sorcery; seduction and mass hysteria.