James Heneage
Auteur de The Walls of Byzantium
Séries
Œuvres de James Heneage
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1957-10-31
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Bowerchalke, Wiltshire, England, UK
Peloponnese, Greece - Études
- Sandhurst Military College
- Professions
- Officer, British Army
advertising executive
bookshop owner
writer - Organisations
- The Grenadier Guards
Membres
Critiques
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 7
- Membres
- 113
- Popularité
- #173,161
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 36
- Langues
- 1
This is the fourth in Heneage's series about the Varangian Guard and the decline and fall of the Roman Empire based in Constantinople. I enjoyed the third book in the series and wanted to read more simply because the setting is unusual. There are many historical novels set in Western Europe covering the 15th/16th centuries, but this is the first that I have read focused on Eastern Europe and war between the Turkish Empire and the remnants of the old Orthodox church. This book has all the elects of a good action novel but with a hefty dose of politics and a little (heavy-handed) romance. Heneage is a strong story-teller and whilst characters are lightly drawn there is enough to make it a deeper book than might otherwise be expected.… (plus d'informations)