(Izdošanas datums: 19-Nov-2019, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300248852)
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immedia...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 19-Nov-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Yale University Press, ISBN-13: 9780300248852)
The city of Acre, powerfully fortified and richly provisioned, was the last crusader stronghold. When it fell in 1291, two hundred years of Christian crusading in the Holy Land came to a bloody end. With his customary narrative brilliance and immedia...Lasīt vairāk
'A rare gift . . . The story he has to tell may be a thrilling one but not every historian could tell it so thrillingly.' Financial Times'Magnificently rip-roaring history . . . Bursting with colour and excitement.' Dominic Sandbr...Lasīt vairāk
A magisterial work of gripping history, City of Fortune tells the story of the Venetian ascent from lagoon dwellers to the greatest power in the Mediterranean - an epic five hundred year voyage that encompassed crusade and trade, plague, sea battles...Lasīt vairāk
'Engagingly fresh and vivid . . . The 21-year-old Mehmet ( the Ottoman Sultan) emerges from this book as ruthless but innovative, irascible but versatile and, above all, indefatigable - a worthy successor to Alexander and the Roman emperors he ad...Lasīt vairāk
In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, despatched an invasion fleet to the island of Rhodes. This was the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths, and the ensuing battle fo...Lasīt vairāk
