The enemy at the gate :
Wheatcroft, Andrew
The enemy at the gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe / Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe Andrew Wheatcroft - New York : Basic Books, 2009 - xxv, 339 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2008 Includes bibliographical references and index
Terror in the East -- A call to arms -- Turks and Tartars -- A plague on the land -- Taking the road to war -- The adversaries -- 'Rise up, rise up ye Christians' -- The pit of hell -- 'A flood of black pitch' -- A holy war? -- Storming Buda -- The age of heroes -- Myth displacing history
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
9781844137411
East and West
Vienna (Austria) --1683 -- Siege, Turkey --Foreign relations--Europe Europe --Foreign relations--Turkey Europe --Foreign relations--1648-1715
CB251 / .W44 2009
The enemy at the gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe / Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe Andrew Wheatcroft - New York : Basic Books, 2009 - xxv, 339 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2008 Includes bibliographical references and index
Terror in the East -- A call to arms -- Turks and Tartars -- A plague on the land -- Taking the road to war -- The adversaries -- 'Rise up, rise up ye Christians' -- The pit of hell -- 'A flood of black pitch' -- A holy war? -- Storming Buda -- The age of heroes -- Myth displacing history
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
9781844137411
East and West
Vienna (Austria) --1683 -- Siege, Turkey --Foreign relations--Europe Europe --Foreign relations--Turkey Europe --Foreign relations--1648-1715
CB251 / .W44 2009