About this title: In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. Within the city walls the choice of resistance over surrender to the largest army ever assembled by the Turks created an all-or-nothing scenario: every last survivor would be enslaved or ruthlessly slaughtered. Both sides remained resolute, sustained by hatred of their age-old enemy, certain that their victory would be won by the grace of God. Eastern invaders had always threatened the West, but the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780224073646ISBN:0224073648
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781844137411ISBN:1844137414
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 368 pages. In 1683, two empires-the ottoman, based in constantinople, and the habsburg dynasty in vienna-came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the great siege of vienna. this work provides an account of this complex and epic of conflicts. 16 (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 4/27/2009
ISBN-13:9780465013746ISBN:0465013740
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: VINTAGE Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780224073646ISBN:0224073648
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 368 pages. In 1683, two empires-the ottoman, based in constantinople, and the habsburg dynasty in vienna-came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the great siege of vienna. this book provides an account of this conflict. (Hardback) read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780465013746ISBN:0465013740
Description: New. Brand new. Historical work tht demonstrates how far Ottomans, Habsburgs & the rest of Europe lived in a common world with very porous borders. Very nice copy. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Perseus Books Group
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780465013746ISBN:0465013740
Description: New. The Great Siege of Vienna is the centerpiece for historian Wheatcroft's richly drawn portrait of the centuries-long rivalry between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires for control of the European continent. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9781844137411ISBN:1844137414
Description: New. In 1683, two empires-the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna-came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. This work provides an account of this complex and epic of c... read more
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"Warfare in seventeenth century Europe was exceedingly brutal, and from Andrew Wheatcroft's account of the 1683 Battle of Vienna, it must have been quite terrifying to behold. Wheatcroft describes a siege of overwhelming force, a mass of men thrown recklessly against Vienna's armaments. Tactical weaponry was still very crude by modern standards, but combatants overcame accuracy limitations by sheer volume, a nearly constant hail of bullets, grenades, and mortars thrust at the enemy.
Sappers (miners) played a surprisingly pivotal role in warfare, tunneling under city walls or toppling them by detonating massive mines underground. Men rush into the breach. And because seventeenth century prisoners of war could typically expect to be massacred or, at best, enslaved, the fighting was exceedingly feverish.
Wheatcroft's description of the last moment rescue of Vienna is breathtaking, but the aftermath of the invasion is rather less captivating, with pursuit of the fleeing Turks into Hungary by the victorious Polish-Austrian-German forces, and then for the Ottoman Empire 300 years of protracted warfare and decline."
"A bit of a disappointment. About 90% of the book was about the siege of Vienna and very little about the period between that and the Treaty of Belgrade."
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