Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse [Paperback]

Jean-Charles de Fontbrune (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 1985

This is the best-selling definitive edition of the prophesies of Nostradamus, the sixteenth-century physician turned seer who predicted the French and Russian revolutions, the rise and death of Hitler, and scores of other specific events.

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Language Notes

Text: English, French (translation) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

About the Author

Peter Lemesurier is widely recognised as the world authority on Nostradamus, and lives in Pembroke, Wales. He has written The Nostradamus Encyclopedia, recognised as the standard reference work on the subject. Nostradamus the Next 50 Years and Nostradamus in the 21st Century. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 496 pages
• Publisher: Holt Paperbacks; 1st Owl Books edition (April 15, 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0805010483
• ISBN-13: 978-0805010480
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,696,203 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Battle with Islamic nations amply predicted, October 8, 2001

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Thomas Fruin (Amsterdam, Netherlands) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Nostradamus: Countdown to Apocalypse (Paperback)

I bought this book last year, and amongst the things that impressed me, was the large amount of predictions of battles between the Arabic/Islamic nations and the West. That was last year...

I recommend this book, because of the author's serious and scholarly approach to Nostradamus. The author takes great pains to explain HOW and WHY he translates the old and peculiar French used by Nostradamus, and the geography of his times (when the U.S.A. didn't even exist yet), to the current day. The author also never denies the difficulty of interpreting.

In summary, I liked the book, because it takes translating and interpreting Nostradamus serious.

However, do we have the stomach for what lies ahead according to these predictions...? But wasn't the Apocalypse, to which reference is made in the title, written at least a thousand years before, in the Bible? And in many other religous texts, even the Koran, for that matter?

So why are we still surprised?

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A substantial work on Nostradamus, March 9, 2004

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"drikung" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nostradamus: The Illustrated Prophecies (Hardcover)

Lemesurier's book is a significant effort to reveal the written sources underlying the prophecies of Nostradamus. He especially manages to show convincingly how Nostradamus drew on contemporary publications for implicit references in his abundant use of omens. In this way Lemesurier reveals where Nostradamus really took his "inspiration" for many of his prophetic verses. This book represents one more substantial step in the critical evaluation of the work of the famous Renaissance prophet.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a genuine reprinting, October 4, 2008

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QGBFH (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies of Michel Nostradamus (Hardcover)

What I wanted was a modern reprint of the original. What I got is a book that has only the quatrains, but NONE of the images. The page numbers are also all off because of the omissions. I would also like to have the original verse along side the translation.

This book is anything but complete. And is a waste if you want all of the clues intact. It's no wonder people can't understand it.