The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman

The Fall of Constantinople 1453

Steven Runciman

270 pages first pub 1990 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city's plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, ...

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