![]() ![]() ![]() Mehmet II, the twenty-one-year-old Sultan, headstrong, intelligent, and possessed with the idea of capturing the city. Constantinople, the first city of a once great Christian Empire.Ĭrowley then examines the lives of Mehmet II and Constantine XI. Eventually reducing the Byzantine Empire to little more than their capital. Beginning with Osman’s rise to prominence in the later 13 th Century, the author recounts how the Ottoman Turks quickly ejected the Byzantines from Anatolia before continuing into Europe. Crowley opens by reviewing the history of Byzantium’s (Eastern Roman Empire) relationship with the Turkish tribes that conquered, and settled, in Anatolia. In his book, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and The Clash of Islam and The West, Roger Crowley provides an excellent account of Constantinople’s fall. Perhaps the most significant event in this thousand-year drama, the Fall of Constantinople, occurred on May 29, 1453. Beginning with the Battle of Yarmouk in 636 to the Siege of Vienna in 1683, the forces of Islam proved nearly unstoppable as they wrested ever more territory, and people, from Christian realms. Christian Europe’s resistance to Islam’s long campaign of expansion is punctuated by many significant events. There are events, history’s thunderclaps, that peal across time. ![]() Roger Crowley, 1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and The Clash of Islam and The West. ![]()
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