The Enemy at the Gate 1st edition by Andrew Wheatcroft ISBN 046502081X 978-0465020812

The Enemy at the Gate 1st edition by Andrew Wheatcroft ISBN 046502081X 978-0465020812

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ISBN 10: 046502081X
ISBN 13:  978-0465020812
Author: Andrew Wheatcroft

In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman host launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the populace with arrows during the battle for Christianity's bulwark. Each side was sustained by the hatred of its age-old enemy, certain that victory would be won by the grace of God.

The Great Siege of Vienna is the centerpiece for historian Andrew Wheatcroft's richly drawn portrait of the centuries-long rivalry between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires for control of the European continent. A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examination of an epic clash of civilizations.

The Enemy at the Gate 1st Table of contents:

PART ONE

1 - A Call to Arms

2 - Turks and Tartars

3 - A Plague on the Land

4 - Taking the Road to War

PART TWO

5 - The Adversaries

6 - ‘Rise Up, Rise Up, Ye Christians’

7 - The Pit of Hell

8 - ‘A Flood of Black Pitch’

5.00 a.m.

10.00 a.m.

Before Noon

2.00 p.m.

Mid-afternoon

6.00 p.m.

9 - A Holy War?

10 - Storming Buda

PART THREE

11 - The Age of Heroes

12 - Myth Displacing History

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