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Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 (Paperback)

by Roger Crowley (Author)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Faber and Faber (2 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0571221866
  • ISBN-13: 978-0571221868
  • Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 7,560 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"'A powerful telling of an extraordinary story, presented with a clarity and a confidence that most academic historians would envy.' Noel Malcolm, Sunday Telegraph 'Narrative history at its most enthralling.' Christopher Silvester, Daily Express 'Engagingly fresh and vivid.' Malise Ruthven, Sunday Times"

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5.0 out of 5 stars A great tale rendered brilliantly, 23 Feb 2007
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Loads of high-profile historical books are praised to the rafters these days, and yet when you read them you often find that the writer has not fully got to grips with the subject matter, and you end up absorbing little real knowledge or deriving much entertainment.

This book is an exception. Lucid, exciting and thoroughly entertaining, this is one of the best I've ever read.
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32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Atmospheric and Entertaining, 11 Dec 2005
By J. Brennan (Cheshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Constantinople: The Last Great Siege, 1453 (Hardcover)
If you have had the pleasure of reading John Julius Norwich's outstanding trilogy on the Byzantine empire then you will know that it comes to an end in May 1453. This book focuses on that fateful day telling the story in an entertaining and absorbing manner. If you are a student of history or just and interested amateur like myself you will find this book excellent, I would recommend reading it along with Runciman's the Fall of Constantinople for a comprehensive overview of this climactic event in world history.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful and gripping, 10 Jan 2007
By Mr. Jeremy N. Harcourt "jh018q3487" (Horley, Surrey) - See all my reviews
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I really enjoyed this book. The style is scholarly and it is very well researched but still accesible and easy to read.

The author gives a powerful account of a terrible and brutal siege where the defenders of the city of Constantinople defend themselves against a huge attacking force sent by the Ottoman sultan. Atrocities are committed by both sides. The defenders are heavily outnumbered, largely abandoned by the Christian world and under constant bombardment from the Ottoman cannon. Eventually the walls that have protected the city for hundreds of years are breached and the city falls.

The book is very well written and the author builds up the drama and tension of the siege very well. The fall of Constantinople is shown as a traumatic event for Christian Europe although the author suggests at the end that maybe life under the Ottoman rule was not all bad !
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