Byzantium: The Decline and Fall: v. 3: The Decline and Fall
Author(s): John Julius Norwich
From the accession of Alexius in 1081, through the disastrous Fourth Crusade - when an army destined for the Holy Land was diverted to Constantinople by the blind, octogenarian but infinitely crafty Doge of Venice - to the painfully protracted struggle against the Ottomans, the closing centuries of the Byzantine era are rich in pathos, colour and startling reversals of fortune. The terrible siege of Constantinople in 1453 ended the empire, founded in the year 330, which Lord Norwich has devoted many years to re-creating; this volume forms the climax to an epic sequence of books.
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General Fields
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.386
- : 01 October 1996
- : 198mm X 129mm X 23mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : 544
- : 3rd Revised edition
- : Paperback
- : John Julius Norwich