Isbn: 9781401308506 - 1453: the holy war for constantinople and the clash of islam and the west (10 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. A gripping exploration of the fall of Constantinople and its connection to the world we live in today, 1453 tells the story of one of the great forgotten events of world history, the fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks.For a thousand years Constantinople was quite simply the city: fabulously wealthy, imperial, intimidating--and Christian. Single-handedly it blunted early Arab enthusiasm for Holy War; when a second wave of Islamic warriors swept out of the Asian steppes in the Middle Ages, Constantinople was the ultimate prize: The Red Apple. It was a city that had always lived under threat. On average it had survived a siege every forty years for a millenium--until the Ottoman Sultan Mehmet I, twenty-one years old and hungry for glory, rode up to the walls in April 1453 with a huge army, numberless as the stars.Here is the taut, vivid story of this final struggle for the city told largely through the accounts of eyewitnesses. For fifty-five days a tiny group of defenders defied the huge Ottoman army in a seesawing contest fought on land, at sea, and underground. During the course of events, the largest cannon ever built was directed against the world's most formidable defensive system, Ottoman ships were hauled overland into the Golden Horn, and the morale of defenders was crucially undermined by unnerving portents. At the center is the contest between two inspirational leaders, Mehmed I and Constantine XI, fighting for empire and religious faith, and an astonishing finale in a few short hours on May 29, 1453--a defining moment for medieval history.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 304 pages. 8.00x5.50x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: New. 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, outnumbere.