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1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West
by Roger Crowley
Jim's review
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley
Jim's review
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This is an engaging account of the fall of Constantinople to the Turks. It's a well-paced narrative history of a conquest that changed the shape of the world, in which few thousand Byzantine and Italian soldiers successfully defended the city against many tens of thousands of Turks for more than a month before falling before the onslaught.
