TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wheatcroft, Andrew  
TI  - The enemy at the gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe 
SN  - 9781844137411
AV  - CB251 .W44 2009  
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York : 
PB  - Basic Books
KW  - East and West
KW  -  Vienna (Austria)
KW  - History
KW  -  Siege,
KW  - 1683
KW  - Turkey
KW  - Foreign relations
KW  - Europe
KW  -  Europe
KW  - 1648-1715
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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