A place called Armageddon
Subtitle: Constantinople 1453
By: C.C. Humphreys
Publisher: Orion
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 461
ISBN-13: 9781409114864; 9781409114871
Subjects: Byzantine Empire; Civilization; Siege of Istanbul (Turkey : 1453) fast (OCoLC)fst01354811; Fiction; History
Description: To the Greeks who love it, it is Constantinople. To the Turks who covet it, the Red Apple. Safe behind its magnificent walls, the city was once the heart of the vast Byzantine empire. 1453. The empire has shrunk to what lies within those now-crumbling walls. A relic. Yet for one man, Constantinople is the stepping stone to destiny.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 460-461).
Table of contents: title: To the Greeks who love it, it is Constantinople. To the Turks who covet it, the Red Apple. Safe behind its magnificent walls, the city was once the heart of the vast Byzantine empire. 1453. The empire has shrunk to what lies within those now-crumbling walls. A relic. Yet for one man, Constantinople is the stepping stone to destiny. Mehmet is twenty when he is annointed Sultan, and builds an army of one hundred thousand. This is the tale of one of history's greatest battles for one of the world's most extraordinary places. This is the story of people, from peasant to emperor; title: with the city's fate, and theirs, undecided...until the moment the Red Apple falls.