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Constantinople - The Last Great Siege, 1453 (Paperback, Main)
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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 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.
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