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Item Details
| Title:
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CONSTANTINOPLE
THE LAST GREAT SIEGE 1453 |
| By: |
Roger Crowley |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0571221866 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780571221868 |
| Publisher: |
FABER & FABER |
| Pub. date: |
2 November, 2006 |
| Pages: |
320 |
| Description: |
In the spring of 1453, the Ottoman Turks advanced on Constantinople in pursuit of an Islamic dream: capturing the thousand-year-old capital of Christian Byzantium. During the siege that followed, a small band of defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in an epic contest fought on land, sea and underground. |
| Synopsis: |
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 defenders, outnumbered ten to one, confronted the might of the Ottoman army in an epic contest fought on land, sea and underground. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Faber & Faber |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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