Reviews for A History Of The Protection Of Regional Cultural Minorities In Europe

The average rating for A History Of The Protection Of Regional Cultural Minorities In Europe based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-31 00:00:00 Robert Craft True Crime! Well, the likely events related to various crimes committed in centuries past. Sabatini researched famous crimes, gathering all the known accounts of each. He developed his own theories within the evidence. Then, he wrote the stories he believed went with the crimes. And, as is typical of Sabatini, his prose and descriptions are masterful. The collection is basically a set of short stories of historical fiction. My only complaint is that they are not in chronological order. Being uninformed in the history of Europe in question, I was not always familiar with the players in the stories. If you like historical fiction or European history, you'll love these stories. Enjoy! Here is Sabatini's own description of this work. "In approaching The Historical Nights' Entertainment I set myself the task of reconstructing, in the fullest possible detail and with all the color available from surviving records, a group of more or less famous events. I would select for my purpose those which were in themselves bizarre and resulting from the interplay of human passions, and whilst relating each of these events in the form of a story, I would compel that story scrupulously to follow the actual, recorded facts without owing anything to fiction, and I would draw upon my imagination, if at all, merely as one might employ color to fill in the outlines which history leaves grey, taking care that my color should be as true to nature as possible. For dialogue I would depend upon such scraps of actual speech as were chronicled in each case, amplifying it by translating into terms of speech the paraphrases of contemporary chroniclers." -- From Sabatini's Preface

Review # 2 was written on 2015-12-10 00:00:00 Ellis Hall Dry, and obsessed with how Renaissance Diplomacy prefigures modern diplomacy, rather than being an interesting subject in its own right. A solid worthy book but not much fun.