Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 by Roger Crowley

Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453

Roger Crowley

336 pages first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction history religion informative medium-paced
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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, ...

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