Constantinople

By - Roger Crowley

Floor - Floor 4

ISBN 10 - 0571221866

ISBN 13 - 9780571221868

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Turkey--Istanbul

Shelf No - 4

Call Number - 949.6180 CRO

Physical Description - xi, 304 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (chiefly color) ; 20 cm

Notes - Includes indexes

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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 near.

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