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The enemy at the gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe / Andrew Wheatcroft.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wheatcroft, Andrew.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vienna (Austria)--History--Siege, 1683.
- Vienna (Austria).
- East and West.
- Turkey--Foreign relations--Europe.
- Turkey.
- International relations.
- Europe.
- Europe--Foreign relations--Turkey.
- Europe--Foreign relations--1648-1715.
- Physical Description:
- xxv, 339 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, plans ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Basic Books, 2009.
- Contents:
- Part 1
- 1 A Call to Arms 13
- 2 Turks and Tartars 35
- 3 A Plague on the Land 55
- 4 Taking the Road to War 77
- Part 2
- 5 The Adversaries 97
- 6 'Rise Up, Rise Up, Ye Christians' 119
- 7 The Pit of Hell 145
- 8 'A Flood of Black Pitch' 162
- 9 A Holy War? 188
- 10 Storming Buda 201
- Part 3
- 11 The Age of Heroes 227
- 12 Myth Displacing History 245.
- Notes:
- Originally published: London : Bodley Head, 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0465013740 :
- 9780465013746 :
- OCLC:
- 318924099
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