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The enemy at the gate

Habsburgs, Ottomans and the battle for Europe

by Andrew Wheatcroft

2009 339 pages eng

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, widely feared for their savagery. The walls of Vienna …

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