A place called Armageddon : Constantinople 1453 /

Humphreys, C. C.

A place called Armageddon : Constantinople 1453 / C.C. Humphreys. - London : Orion, 2012. - xiii, 522 p. : maps ; 20 cm.

Originally published: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references.

To the Greeks who love it, it is Constantinople. To the Turks who covet it, the Red Apple. Safe behind its magnificent walls, the city was once the heart of the vast Byzantine empire. 1453. The empire has shrunk to what lies within those now-crumbling walls. A relic. Yet for one man, Constantinople is the stepping stone to destiny.

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Istanbul (Turkey)--History--Siege, 1453--Fiction.


Historical fiction.
Historical.
Historical.

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