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Constantine, the last emperor of the Greeks; or, The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks (A.D. 1453) after the latest historical researches

Constantine, the last emperor of the Greeks; or, The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks (A.D. 1453) after the latest historical researches

Mijatovic, Cedomilj

Paperback

General World HistoryTurkey & Ottoman Empire History

ISBN10: 9353709415
ISBN13: 9789353709419
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Jun 1 2019
Pages: 266
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Constantinople, 1453: the hinge of history, where a city of emperors meets the rising Ottoman Empire. The walls will not hold. Cedomilj Mijatovic writes with urgency and restraint, capturing the last hours of an old world without melodrama, and guiding you straight to the human stakes behind the famous breach. In this historical nonfiction classic - a byzantine history chronicle shaped by late nineteenth-century scholarship - he reconstructs the ottoman conquest of constantinople as both statecraft and street-level ordeal. The narrative follows Constantine XI, the last byzantine emperor, and the defenders of a capital cut off from help, while the attackers press a campaign that signals ottoman empire expansion into the medieval eastern mediterranean. Clear-eyed on motives and consequences, Mijatovic balances diplomacy, religion, and command decisions with the practicalities of siege warfare medieval: fortifications, supply, morale, and the brutal mathematics of time. Read as a military history narrative, it moves with novelistic momentum; read as a history reference collection staple, it offers a lucid pathway into fifteenth-century byzantium and the constantinople 1453 siege that ended the Byzantine Empire and altered Europe's frontier. Its plain-spoken authority welcomes newcomers, yet it also rewards serious readers with careful attention to contested facts and inherited legends. For classic-literature collectors, it remains a distinctive classic reprint edition of a defining moment. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today -- a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

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