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The Fall of Constantinople - Twilight of Empires
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Publisher: Robert Walker
Published: May 13 2025
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
May 29, 1453. The last day of the Roman Empire.
For fifty-three days, the ancient walls of Constantinople have held against the largest army the world has ever seen. Now, as dawn breaks over the Golden Horn, a young sultan's dream of conquest collides with an emperor's determination to die as the last Roman.
Constantine XI knows the mathematics of his situation: five thousand defenders against one hundred thousand Ottoman soldiers. The numbers allow no miracle. But an emperor born to the purple does not calculate his worth in probability of survival-he measures it in how he faces the end.
Across the walls, Sultan Mehmed II sees not destruction but transformation. Constantinople will not be erased; it will be absorbed, its churches becoming mosques, its people becoming subjects, its thousand-year legacy folding into something new.
Between these two men stand the people who will live or die by their decisions: Maria, a tanner's daughter who counts everything-water levels, bread loaves, the odds of survival; Nikolaos, a mason's son fighting in the darkness beneath the walls; Giovanni Giustiniani, the Genoese mercenary whose sword arm may be Constantinople's last hope.
A sweeping epic of faith, duty, and survival at the end of an age.
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