{"product_id":"tales-of-legends","title":"Tales of Legends","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"a-spacing-none a-text-normal\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan id=\"productTitle\" class=\"a-size-large celwidget\" data-csa-c-id=\"j8ax6f-okrpma-wyxhar-k5r0tz\" data-cel-widget=\"productTitle\"\u003eSultans, Shoguns \u0026amp; Revolutionaries of the Gunpowder Age: The Greatest Generals, Empire Builders, and Legendary Conquerors in History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the first thunder of cannon to the last roar of revolution, a new world was forged in smoke and steel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe age of gunpowder shattered old orders and raised new ones. Empires rose on disciplined drill, oceanic trade, and iron wills. From Istanbul to Edo, from the Baltic to the Caribbean, sultans and shoguns, admirals and revolutionaries bent gun, sail, and state to their purpose—and changed history’s map.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese are the makers of the modern age, speaking in their own fierce voices:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul class=\"a-unordered-list a-vertical\"\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBabur\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the Timurid prince who carved Mughal destiny with saber and matchlock.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSuleiman the Magnificent\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, lawgiver and lightning of the Ottoman advance.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOda Nobunaga\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the warlord who set Japan ablaze—and on the path to unity—by ashigaru volley.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAbbas the Great\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the Safavid who traded silk for steel and reclaimed a kingdom.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGustavus Adolphus\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the Lion of the North, who made gunpowder sing on the snowy fields.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJan III Sobieski\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the savior of Vienna, whose winged charge halted the crescent’s last great surge.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003ePeter the Great\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, shipwright-tsar who hammered a window to the West.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the reluctant sword who made a nation from winter and resolve.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eNapoleon Bonaparte\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the cannon-bright comet whose glory scorched a continent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSimón Bolívar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, El Libertador, who pledged on a hill to free a world—and did.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-list-item\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e… and ten more leaders and generals whose names still burn in the chronicles of history.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTales of Legends: Sultans, Shoguns \u0026amp; Revolutionaries of the Gunpowder Age\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, twenty first-person narratives plunge you into the minds of the commanders who built and broke empires. Feel the deck heave under broadsides, the ground shake beneath massed volleys, the quiet weight of statecraft at midnight. Watch tactics become institutions, raids become revolutions, and men become myths.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is no lifeless chronicle of dates and battles—this is the gunpowder world told by the very voices that shaped it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHistory remembers their wars.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis book remembers their voices.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Independently published","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":51898048545051,"sku":null,"price":47.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":51898048577819,"sku":null,"price":24.82,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/3343\/9771\/files\/tales-of-legends-history-politics-book-cover-features-samurai-ornate-477.webp?v=1776286780","url":"https:\/\/goldenlambpublishing.ca\/products\/tales-of-legends","provider":"Golden Lamb Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}