The author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History
of Humankind looks at covert operations and assassination plots in
the medieval period, matching anything to be found in our own era.
Alongside the familiar pitched battles, regular sieges, and
large-scale manoeuvres, medieval and early modern wars also
involved assassination, abduction, treason and sabotage. These
undercover operations were aimed chiefly against key individuals,
mostly royalty or the leaders of the opposing army, and against key
fortified places, including bridges, mills and dams. However,
because of their clandestine nature, these deeds of "derring-do"
have not been studied in any detail, a major gap which this book
fills. It surveys a wide variety of special operations, from the
eleventh to the sixteenth century. It then analyzes in greater
depth six select and exciting operations: the betrayal of Antioch
in 1098; the attempt to rescue King Baldwin II from the dungeon of
Khartpert in 1123; the assassination of Conrad of Montferrat in
1192; the attempt to storm Calais in 1350; the "dirty war" waged by
the rulers of France and Burgundy in the 1460s and 1470s; and the
demolition of the flour mill of Auriol in 1536. "A portrait of
espionage, covert operations, assassination squads, and the deep
penetration of seemingly invulnerable fortresses or security
systems matching anything to be found in the war stories of the
modern era." MATTHEW BENNETT, SANDHURST. Professor YUVAL NOAH
HARARI teaches at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and is the
author of the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of
Humankind.
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