SPIES, SADISTS AND SORCERERS: THE HISTORY YOU WEREN’T TAUGHT IN SCHOOL
Book ID/图书代码： 08090016B91433
English Summary/英文概要： "A brilliantly fun and informative read. Dominic Selwood has taken the juiciest bits of history from the past two thousand years and put them together in one marvellous volume. Selwood is a rare blend of insightful historian and thrilling writer. Cracking along at a breakneck pace reminiscent of Dan Brown,Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers is as perfect for the beach as it is for serious historical background reading."
Claudia Gold author of The King’s Mistress: The True and Scandalous Story of the Woman Who Stole the Heart of George I and Women Who Ruled: History’s 50 Most Remarkable Women
Spies, Sadists and Sorcerers unveils the history you were never taught in school. With a breathtaking sweep spanning Rome to the modern day, popular historian and author Dominic Selwood challenges the traditional version of some of the best-known events of the past.
From ancient Christianity to the voyages of Columbus, and from the medieval Crusades to ISIS and the modern Middle East, this book debunks dozens of historical myths.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： “非常有意思、信息量丰富的一本读物。作者Dominic Selwood 截取了过去两千年历史中最有趣的片段、将它们整合到一起，形成了一本绝妙的作品。Selwood是难得一见的既具有历史学家的洞察力、又兼具惊悚小说潜力的作家。《间谍、施虐狂和巫师》不仅是一本严肃历史背景的读物，也是一本很好的海边度假消遣读物。”
《间谍、施虐狂和巫师》揭露了在课堂上绝对学不到的历史，从古罗马到当今社会，历史学家兼作家Dominic Selwood挑战了对历史上著名事件的传统版本。
从古代天主教到哥伦布航行，从中世纪十字军东征到ISIS 和现代中东，本书揭开了一系列历史谜团。(LYR)
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About the Author/作者介绍： 我的早期记忆——除了两岁半时的一次撞车——基本上都是在山区以及塞浦路斯的地中海岛屿摸爬滚打。那是一种缓慢、慵懒的生活，我记得躺在希腊和罗马废墟的炎热的石头上，以及那些十字军建筑，看着壁虎舔着眼球，听着知了的叫声。二十年后，我前往牛津以及索邦神学院，专门研究十字军骑士——那些建造了我记忆中城堡的骑士们。
我的第一本书《修道院骑士》就是在那时写的。这是一本关于圣殿骑士团和医院骑士团的历史学教科书。我并不推荐将其当作消遣类读物，它更适合那些希望了解有关圣殿骑士团和医院骑士团具体人名、地点、日期的读者，书中涉及到他们如何招募新的成员、建造修道院、改造乡村、交朋友、树立敌人、发展银行业技能，以及如何集中精力将新鲜的骑士、马匹、武器和金钱运送到部队，参加圣战。我热衷于研究，享受研究的每一分钟。
研究完成后，我前往伦敦，成为一名法律顾问——立刻投入到从谋杀、恐怖主义到绑架、国际买凶杀人等一系列案件中。最终，我放弃了，但我并不后悔那几年的工作经验。自那以后，我从事过很多工作。一系列巧合使我在中东居住并工作。也就是在那里，看着波斯湾湛蓝的海水，我的第一本惊悚小说问世了。《摩西之剑》是一部节奏明快的故事，讲述了国际间谍、圣经考古学等等。我希望你们能喜欢这本书。
My earliest memories - apart from crashing a car when I was two and a half - are of scrambling around the mountains and stony bondu on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. It was a slow and sleepy place to live back then, and I chiefly remember lying on the hot stones of ruined Greek, Roman, and crusader buildings watching geckos lick their eyeballs to the sound of dozy cicadas.
Twenty years later, I went to Oxford and the Sorbonne to specialize in researching the knights of the crusades - the people who had built the castles I remembered so well.
My first book, Knights of the Cloister, is what came out of that time. It’s a history textbook on the Knights Templar and Knights Hospitaller - the most iconic of all the crusaders. I don’t recommend the book as light relaxing reading. It’s more for people who want names, places, and dates of real Templars and Hospitallers living in their heartland of Southern France. It covers how they attracted new members, built fortified monasteries, transformed the countryside, made friends and enemies, developed expertise in banking, and focused all their efforts on sending fresh knights, horses, weapons, and money to their garrisons fighting the crusades in the Holy Land. I loved every minute of the research - rummaging through ancient chests in old French churches and working in some of the world’s most beautiful libraries reading priceless illuminated manuscripts.
When the research was finished, I went to London and became a barrister (court room attorney) - quickly getting thrown into everything from murder and terrorism to kidnapping and international contract killing. I gave it up in the end, but I wouldn’t swap those years for anything. It was an enormous privilege being permitted to defend people whose freedom was on the line.
Since then I’ve done a lot of things. A series of coincidences brought me to live and work in the Middle East. It was here, looking out over the azure waters of the Persian Gulf (with geckos and cicadas for company again), that my first thriller novel was born. The Sword of Moses is a fast-paced story of international espionage, ancient cryptic clues, biblical archaeology, violence, and - of course, the Knights Templar. I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I did writing it!
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