The Forty Sieges of Constantinople: The Great City's Enemies and Its Survival by John D. Grainger
The Forty Sieges of Constantinople: The Great City's Enemies and Its Survival

John D. Grainger

The Forty Sieges of Constantinople: The Great City's Enemies and Its Survival

John D. Grainger

304 pages first pub 2022 (editions)

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The great city of Byzantion/Constantinople/Istanbul stands on a commanding cape overlooking a busy waterway. It has been the target of repeated attempts to capture it for the past two and a half millennia. Most of these attacks failed, but some di...

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