Constantinople

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The Last Great Siege, 1453

Автор: Roger Crowley

Език:

Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Faber & Faber

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In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Roger Crowley

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2013

страници

336

EAN

9780571298204

ISBN

0571298206

Enbook ID

01390217

Издател

Faber & Faber

Теглоt

268

Размери

121 x 195 x 22

Пълно описание

In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an ancient Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of badly organised defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in a bitter contest fought on land, sea and underground, and directed by two remarkable men - Sultan Mehmet II and the Emperor Constantine XI. In the fevered religious atmosphere, heightened by the first massed use of artillery bombardment, both sides feared that the end of the world was nigh. The outcome of the siege, decided in a few short hours on 29 May 1453, is one of the great set-piece moments of world history.

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