Constantinople

2006 Pages·2015·7.28 MB·English

by  Roger Crowley

CONSTANTINOPLE
The Last
Great Siege
1453
ROGER CROWLEY

For Jan with love,
wounded at the sea wall
in pursuit of the siege
Constantinople is a city larger
than its renown proclaims.
May God in his grace and
generosity deign to make it
the capital of Islam.
Hasan Ali Al-Harawi, twelfth-century
Arab writer

I shall tell the story of the
tremendous perils … of
Constantinople, which I
observed at close quarters
with my own eyes.
Leonard of Chios
Table of
Contents

Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
List of Illustrations
Maps
Note on Sources
Prologue: The Red
Apple
Chapter One: The
Burning Sea
Chapter Two:
Dreaming of Istanbul
Chapter Three: Sultan
and Emperor
Chapter Four: Cutting
the Throat
Chapter Five: The
Dark Church
Chapter Six: The Wall
and the Gun
Chapter Seven:
Numerous as the Stars
Chapter Eight: The