Vlad the Impaler: The Real Count Dracula (A Wicked History)

Explore the life of Vlad "the Impaler" Dracula, the fifteenth-century Romanian prince who served as a model for Bram Stoker's infamous vampire.

The wicked ways of some of the most ruthless rulers to walk the earth are revealed in these thrilling biographies (A Wicked History) about men and women so monstrous, they make Frankenstein look like a sweetheart. | Enid A. Goldberg has lived most of her life in New York City. Her career has encompassed both teaching and writing. She is the author of 14 published nonfiction books.
Norman Itzkowitz was an American academic who was a professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University. He was an Ottoman historian who brought perception of psychoanalysis into Near Eastern Studies.