The fall of Constantinople : the Ottoman conquest of Byzantium
"Regarded by some as the tragic end of the last bastion of the Roman Empire, and by others as the belated suppression of a redundant relic by an ambitious young superstate, the fall of Constantinople in 1453 has resonated down the centuries." "The Fall of Constantinople chronicles the history of Byzantium, the evolution of the defences of Constantinople and the epic siege up to the breaching of the great walls and the death of the last Emperor, which heralded the birth of the Ottoman Empire in its fully developed form."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Osprey Pub., Oxford, U.K., 2007