Part 4: The unpredictable outcome

There is a tendency among my fellow historians to say “of course so and so transpired, look at the trends-events-resources, etc. that made victory inevitable.” So, too, some have arm chair quarter backed the 1683 siege of Vienna and implied, “Ottoman weaknesses made their failure predictable.” In reality, their defeat was anything but. Thomas Barker […]

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