4005802
9781401301910
"After a slightly rambling start, Crowley gets you by the throat, switching back and forth between the Ottoman and the Byzantine camps as he leads his story to a nail-biting close. You know how it's going to end, but it doesn't make the slightest difference....Crowley has used the sources to make sure that we enter the state of mind of individuals at a moment of intense crisis, and his account of what happened on 23 May, when the Ottomans finally burst into the shattered city, is moving and convincing."Crowley, Roger is the author of '1453 The Holy War For Constantinople And The Clash Of Islam And The West', published 2005 under ISBN 9781401301910 and ISBN 1401301916.
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