warlords

Military History
139

The ghost of Genghis Khan

After the Russian Revolution, one young officer forged a career so strange that it went down in legend. Tim Newark examines the short and bloody life of Baron Roman von Ungern-Sternberg, and recalls his bizarre mission to create his own barbarian empire in the Russian far east.

Opposite An early portrait of Vlad Dracula, known as Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century prince of Wallachia whose cruel methods of punishment made him notorious across Europe. right Wallachia, as depicted in the 1493 Nuremberg Chronicle. The historical region north of the Lower Danube and south of the Carpathian mountains, it is now part of Romania.

Military History
134

The real Vlad Dracula: in search of a 15th-century warlord

The fanciful character of Dracula the vampire evolved from a real-life figure who was just as terrifying as any fiction. Tim Newark explores the myth and reality of a deadly medieval warrior.