- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group; New title edition (1 Feb 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0385483368
- ISBN-13: 978-0385483360
- Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 13.2 x 2.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 912,592 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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_The Last Apocolypse_ is a great book, and has wonderful writing. There's enough great reviews here, so I'll just add some details:
1) The Prolog for me was hard to get into. If you want to get straight to the action, go straight to the first chapter... but be sure to read the prolog before you toss it out.
2) Minor aggrivation: The sub-title should be "Europe AD 1000" As it stands, the sub-title means "Europe in the year 1000 In the Year of Our Lord"
3) The chapters themself are wonderfully entertaining, but the ironically titled epilog, "December 31, 999" is the crown of this book. Definitly read that afterword.
Buy. this. book.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Even after having read the works of great popular historians like Hibbert, Fraser and Troyat, this work stands out as one of the best-written and most fascinating you could hope to find. It deals with a largely and undeservedly ignored era that was however key to Europe's later development and that more than any other deserves the epitaph "swashbuckling". James Reston tells the story in vivid detail, featuring a number of extremely colourful characters like king Eric Bloodaxe or queen Sigrid the Strong-Minded (who earned this name by luring the suitors who were hounding her into a beer hall and then setting fire to it) and the sometimes hilarious ways in which Christianity was forced on them or by them on others. If you are looking for that rare combination of well-researched history and highly entertaining storytelling, look no further. You might not only laugh out loud on a number of occasions, but also learn a thing or two about the roots of early European society.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is an excellent book about a largely ignored chapter of European history. Filled with stories about the Vikings, Moors, Magyars, and the Papacy, Reston paints a facinating picture about the consolidation of christian power in Europe. Filled with facinating annecdotes, and quite a few horrifying atrocities this is one of the few historical texts I can give a universal reccomendation to. Especially reccomended to readers of Scandinavian or Hungarian descent; whose history by myth or generally ignored. The history of the Papacy has to be read to be believed; a good groundwork for understanding the crusades and the turbulent history of christianity is laid in those chapters. Ironically, the accesible nature of this book, and it's wonderful readability, may make it seem like a frivilous catalog of mutilation, but this is a well researched work and absoloutely worth reading.
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Embracing the Stuff of History
Reston's "The Last Apocalypse" is a pleasure to read and very entertaining. He vividly describes the historical figures who lived (and often died) at the turn of the... Read more
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Required reading for all Christians
This is an excellent book about a largely ignored chapter of European history. Filled with stories about the Vikings, Moors, Magyars, and the Papacy, Reston paints a facinating... Read more
Published on 1 Jun 1999
Concise and extremely informative
Reston captures the essence of the european history and the events of the Norse, Moors, Vikings, among others and includes highlights of war, aggression, passion and the pursuit... Read more
Published on 6 Oct 1998
A disjointed, uninspired collection of stories.
What a disappointment. The author offers us no insight, no perspective on the events related to us in this book. Read more
Published on 16 Sep 1998
Gripping adventure and excellent history
After a somewhat rough prologue which had me worried (that must be what the previous reader referred to), Reston plunges into a compelling history of an era with fantastic... Read more
Published on 24 Aug 1998
Not History, Not Interesting
Unless you're interested in what Reston had for breakfast on a given day rather than history look elsewhere.
Published on 20 July 1998
An epic history that shows the fragility of society in 1000.
With the new millennium quickly approaching, it has become obvious that the populace of today's world has no fear, or any thought that there may be an apocalyptic event in the year... Read more
Published on 5 July 1998
Very informative & entertaining account of the Year 1000 AD
James Reston's account of Europe during the years leading up to and at 1000 AD makes very interesting reading and is quite enjoyable. Read more
Published on 3 July 1998
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