{ "item_title" : "The Bull of Moldavia", "item_author" : [" John Shubin "], "item_description" : "His own family murdered his father and stole his throne. He took it back at twenty-four - and then held it for forty-seven years against the three greatest powers on earth. In 1475, on a fog-choked marsh near Vaslui, a small army from a poor little country did the impossible: it shattered one of the largest forces the Ottoman Empire had ever sent north. The man who set the trap was Stephen of Moldavia - and the morning after the greatest victory of his life, he did not celebrate. He knelt, gave the glory to God, and began building a church on the spot. This is the true story of the man they called the **Athlete of Christ** - the prince who guarded the eastern gate of Christendom for nearly half a century, won the vast majority of dozens of battles against Ottomans, Hungarians, and Poles, and raised a church in thanksgiving after each one. It is told not as a dusty chronicle, but as a code for any young man who wants to learn how to win not once, but for a lifetime - and how to build something that outlasts him. Hunted into exile as a boy, Stephen came home with a borrowed army and took back a stolen crown. Then he did the unglamorous work no prince before him had managed: he fortified his borders in the quiet years, broke the treacherous nobles who had murdered his father, played three empires against each other so he never fought two at once, and turned his hard, poor land into a weapon that swallowed invading armies whole. But this is no flawless-hero legend. You'll meet the man the archives actually show - ruthless to traitors, beaten badly by Mehmed the Conqueror at Valea Albă, abandoned by the Christendom that called him its shield, forced to lose his Black Sea ports and pay tribute to survive. He endured all of it, and his story carries hard, usable lessons: - Do the boring, future-facing work in the easy years - it's the only thing that saves you in the hard ones.- Put your own house in order before you face the world.- Never fight two enemies at once; swallow your pride to buy the time you need.- Win - then give the credit away, before victory rots you.- Turn every win into something permanent that will still stand when you're gone. Drawn from the documented record - Moldavian, Polish, Hungarian, and Ottoman sources - and honest about where history ends and legend begins, *The Bull of Moldavia* is narrative history with the pulse of an epic and the bite of a field manual. For readers of *Meditations*, *Gates of Fire*, and Dan Carlin-style history, and for anyone who wants to build a life that lasts. He didn't have the bigger army, the safe throne, or the help he was promised. He built something stronger. So can you.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/818/502/9798185025833_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "8.50", "online_price" : "8.50", "our_price" : "8.50", "club_price" : "8.50", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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