The Fall of Constantinople: 1453 » (1st Edition)

This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom.

List of plates; List of figures; Preface;
1. The dying empire;
2. The rising sultanate;
3. The emperor and the sultan;
4. The price of Western aid;
5. Preparations for the siege;
6. The siege begins;
7. The loss of the Golden Horn;
8. Fading hope;
9. The last days of Byzantium;
10. The fall of Constantinople;
11. The fate of the vanquished;
12. Europe and the conqueror;
13. The survivors; Appendix I. Principal sources for a history of the fall of Constantinople; Appendix II. The churches of Constantinople after the conquest; Notes; Bibliography; Index.