Tessa Dunlop

It all started with Dracula

A bloodthirsty history of the demented dictators and cult heroes who contributed to the formation of modern Romania will leave you gasping at the fact that this benighted country has come so far

Corneliu Codreanu, the leader of Romania’s murderous fascist league the Iron Guard inspects its ranks in 1934. Credit: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

  • Children of the Night: The Strange and Epic Tale of Modern Romania

    Paul Kenyon

    Apollo, pp. 496, £25

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