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Szigetvár 1566: The Siege That Broke an Empire
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Austrian & Hungarian HistoryEastern European History
Publisher: Silverback Books
Published: Feb 8 2026
Pages: 634
Weight: 1.59
Height: 1.40 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Szigetvár 1566: The Siege That Broke an Empire
In September 1566, the most powerful empire in the world laid siege to a small Croatian fortress defended by just two thousand men. The resulting clash between Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent's hundred-thousand-strong Ottoman army and Count Nikola Zrinski's determined garrison became one of history's most extraordinary sieges. Over two months of relentless combat, the defenders of Szigetvár inflicted between twenty-five and thirty-five thousand casualties on Ottoman forces while conducting a fighting withdrawal through three defensive perimeters. The siege concluded with Zrinski's legendary final sortie, the death of Suleiman himself, and an unprecedented deception as the Grand Vizier concealed the Sultan's death for forty-eight days to prevent military collapse. Drawing on Ottoman, Hungarian, and European sources, this comprehensive history reconstructs the siege's military reality while carefully distinguishing historical fact from later legend. The book examines sophisticated siege engineering, explores the psychology of defenders facing certain death, analyzes Ottoman succession politics, and reveals how this pyrrhic victory helped convince the Ottomans to seek diplomatic settlement with the Habsburgs. The Siege of Szigetvár demonstrates how a single fortress's resistance could impose costs that even the mightiest empire found unsustainable, ultimately helping to mark the limits of Ottoman expansion into Europe.
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