1453 The Holy War For Constantinople

Roger Crowley's '1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West' — a gripping narrative history of the fall of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire, to the Ottoman Turks under Sultan Mehmet II in 1453. The end of the Roman Empire after 1,123 years. The story of the Theodosian Walls, the great bombard, the Golden Horn chain, the final assault, and the transformation of Constantinople into Istanbul.

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