The enemy at the gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe /

The Great Siege of Vienna is the centerpiece for historian Andrew Wheatcroft's richly drawn portrait of the centuries-long rivalry between the Ottoman and Habsburg empires for control of the European continent. A gripping work by a master historian, The Enemy at the Gate offers a timely examina...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wheatcroft, Andrew
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Basic Books, 2009.
Subjects:
1648-1715
East and West.
HISTORY.
East and West
Diplomatic relations
Vienna (Austria) > History > Siege, 1683.
Turkey > Foreign relations > Europe.
Europe > Foreign relations > Turkey.
Europe > Foreign relations > 1648-1715.
Europe > Relations extérieures > 1648-1715.
Austria > Vienna
Europe
Turkey
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Terror in the East
  • A call to arms
  • Turks and Tartars
  • A plague on the land
  • Taking the road to war
  • The adversaries
  • 'Rise up, rise up ye Christians'
  • The pit of hell
  • 'A flood of black pitch'
  • A holy war?
  • Storming Buda
  • The age of heroes
  • Myth displacing history.

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