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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 Mehmet 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 conflict between the West and the Middle East.

For a thousand years Constantinople was quite simply 'the city': fabulously wealthy, imperial, intimidating - and Christian. Singlehandedly 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 millennium – until the Ottoman

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      Publisher: Hyperion
      Publication Date: 01/08/2006
      ISBN13: 9781401308506, 978-1401308506
      ISBN10: 1401308503
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 Mehmet 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 conflict between the West and the Middle East.

      For a thousand years Constantinople was quite simply 'the city': fabulously wealthy, imperial, intimidating - and Christian. Singlehandedly 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 millennium – until the Ottoman

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