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...more details Format:Hardback Pages:368
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Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN:9780140257380
How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to.;In 638 the Christian Patriarch of the Holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God...more details Format:Paperback Pages:477
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Andrew Wheatcroft
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Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam. In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account...more details Format:Paperback Pages:447
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Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN:9780670869428
How did we learn to hate or despise? Simply, because we were taught to. In 638, the Christian Patriarch of the holy city of Jerusalem called the Muslim Caliph's presence an abomination in the sight of God...more details Format:Hardback Pages:480
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...more details Format:Electronic book text
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Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN:9780465013746
In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies...more details Format:Hardback Pages:339
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Andrew Wheatcroft
ISBN:9780465020812
Major historian Andrew Wheatcroft reveals the full story behind four centuries of Ottoman incursions into the heartlands of Europe. In 1683...more details Format:Paperback Pages:339
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Charles Dickens;Andrew Wheatcroft AndrewSachs
ISBN:9780756618315
From the bustling, snowy streets of nineteenth-century London to the ghostly apparitions of Christmases past and future, award-winning artist Roberto Innocenti vividly renders the authentic detail and emotional impact of Charles Dickens's Christmas tale....more details Format:Paperback Pages:64
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Wheatcroft Andrew
ISBN:9781844137411
* 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...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:368
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Wheatcroft Andrew
ISBN:9780140236347
'Wheatcroft has a real feel for the heterogeneous geography of the Habsburg domains - I especially admired his feel for the Spanish Habsburg. Time and again...more details Format:Paperback Pages:416