ISBN: 0571298206
Godina izdanja: 2013
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Roger Crowley - Great Constantinople: The Last Siege, 1453
Faber & Faber, 2013
304 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro
Mediterranean Epic Trilogy #1

Now in trade paperback, a gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today The fall of Constantinople in 1453 signaled a shift in history, and the end of the Byzantium Empire. Roger Crowley`s readable and comprehensive account of the battle between Mehmed II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire, and Constantine XI, the 57th emperor of Byzantium, illuminates the period in history that was a precursor to the current jihad between the West and the Middle East.

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.

Contents:
Red apple
Burning sea
Dreaming of Istan bul
Sultan & Emperor
Cutting the throat
dark church
Wall & gun
Numerous as the stars
Awful resurrection blast
Wind from god
Spirals of blood
Terrible engines
Omens & portents
Remember the date
Locked gates
Handful of dust
Present terror of the world
Resting places


Nonfiction, History, 0571298206