The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe
Autor Andrew Wheatcroften Limba Engleză Paperback – 8 noi 2010 – vârsta de la 13 ani
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
bristled
with
guns
as
the
besieging
Ottoman
host
launched
bombs,
fired
cannons,
and
showered
the
populace
with
arrows
during
the
battle
for
Christianity's
bulwark.
Each
side
was
sustained
by
the
hatred
of
its
age-old
enemy,
certain
that
victory
would
be
won
by
the
grace
of
God.
The
Great
Siege
of
Vienna
is
the
centerpiece
for
historian
Andrew
Wheatcroft's
richly
drawn
portrait
of
the
centuries-long
rivalry
between
the
Ottoman
and
Habsburg
empires
for
control
of
the
European
continent.
A
gripping
work
by
a
master
historian,The
Enemy
at
the
Gateoffers
a
timely
examination
of
an
epic
clash
of
civilizations.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780465020812
ISBN-10: 046502081X
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
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ISBN-10: 046502081X
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 152 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:First Trade Paper Edition
Editura: BASIC BOOKS
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Notă biografică
Andrew
Wheatcroftis
Professor
of
International
Publishing
and
Communication
and
Director
of
the
Centre
for
Publishing
Studies
at
the
University
of
Stirling.
He
is
the
author
ofInfidels,The
Habsburgs,
andThe
Ottomans,
and
has
been
researching
the
material
forThe
Enemy
at
the
Gatefor
more
than
twenty
years.
He
lives
in
Scotland.
Recenzii
Choice
“Wheatcroft's real contribution is his illustration of complex Ottoman administrative and military structures. In fact, the book reveals these to have been a main source of Ottoman power; not, as many have suggested, the provocation of fear through terror or oriental savagery. Wheatcroft also adeptly addresses important historiographical questions about Ottoman decline, the dangers of over-reliance on secondary source materials, syncretism of nomadic steppe tradition with Islamic values, and fine contrasts between Ottoman and European military techniques.”
Journal of Military History
“Andrew Wheatcroft writes exciting and provocative books, andThe Enemy at the Gateis no exception…. As battle history this book is great…. The descriptions of the fortifications, weapons, tactics, attacks, and counterattacks are vivid and compelling…. Even though the reader knows how the siege will turn out, he/she is eager to turn the next page to see if the next explosion and attack will enable the Turks to get into the city.”
The Weekly Standard
“ “[Wheatcroft's] fourth book is primarily a military history of the clashes between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires in the 17th century, the fruit of more than 20 years researching in the field…. Some of the most suggestive material here is on military organization, equipment, and tactics.”
Victor Davis Hanson,First Things
“Wheatcroft offers a riveting account of the slow, methodical Ottoman approach to Vienna…. [A] masterful account of the siege and battle.”
Michigan War Studies Review
“Wheatcroft displays exceptional awareness of the power of the printed word not only to crystallize and reproduce specific facts or news for a mass audience, but to preserve and especially propagate a particular opinion of a given subject. Throughout, he strives to distinguish between the actual siege of Vienna in 1683 and the one preserved in the Western imagination, noting print's power to distort and undervalue the humanity of the Ottoman Turks.”
Independent
“Andrew Wheatcroft'sThe Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europebrilliantly reconstructs the climactic conflict between Muslim ‘East' and Christian ‘West', at Vienna in 1683.”
Telegraph
“A masterpiece of historical writing….The story of the siege reads as compellingly as a Dumas novel.”
Literary Review
“Intensely gripping…The Enemy at the Gateis rich and multilayered… Wheatcroft has done us all a service.”
Sunday Telegraph
“A fascinating and compelling story, a clash between a mighty besieging army and one of the major cities of Europe, involving extraordinary efforts and sacrifices on both sides.”
Financial Times
“Ambitious…Wheatcroft is undeniably expert in his field.”
Times Higher Education Supplement
“It is one of the book's strengths that it demonstrates how far Ottomans, Habsburgs and the rest of Europe lived in a common world with borders that were more porous than we usually imagine.”
“Wheatcroft's real contribution is his illustration of complex Ottoman administrative and military structures. In fact, the book reveals these to have been a main source of Ottoman power; not, as many have suggested, the provocation of fear through terror or oriental savagery. Wheatcroft also adeptly addresses important historiographical questions about Ottoman decline, the dangers of over-reliance on secondary source materials, syncretism of nomadic steppe tradition with Islamic values, and fine contrasts between Ottoman and European military techniques.”
Journal of Military History
“Andrew Wheatcroft writes exciting and provocative books, andThe Enemy at the Gateis no exception…. As battle history this book is great…. The descriptions of the fortifications, weapons, tactics, attacks, and counterattacks are vivid and compelling…. Even though the reader knows how the siege will turn out, he/she is eager to turn the next page to see if the next explosion and attack will enable the Turks to get into the city.”
New
York
Times
Book
Review
“As Andrew Wheatcroft brilliantly shows inThe Enemy at the Gate, the skirmishes and the pitched battles that raged for centuries between Habsburgs and Ottomans, and their numerous vassals on both sides, represented not so much a ‘clash of civilizations' as a collision of empires…. [H]is narrative is thrilling as well as thoughtful, a rare combination.”
Washington Times
“There are two stories here worth telling and well told: the blood-and-thunder tale of the heroic defense of Vienna against the Ottomans in 1683, the surge in morale after the Habsburg victory, and the war to recover Hungary and the Balkans from the Turks. The other story is of the obsessive fear and hatred of the Turks in Christian central Europe, exorcised by the Habsburg victory at Vienna, turning to revenge and reconquest led first by Duke Charles of Lorraine, then by the legendary Prince Eugene of Savoy, ending in exhausted and bankrupt stability.”
Telegraph
“[A] riveting narrative, Andrew Wheatcroft'sThe Enemy at the Gate…tells the story of the final Habsburg-Ottoman showdown at the gates of Vienna in 1683, one of the genuine turning points in European history.”
“As Andrew Wheatcroft brilliantly shows inThe Enemy at the Gate, the skirmishes and the pitched battles that raged for centuries between Habsburgs and Ottomans, and their numerous vassals on both sides, represented not so much a ‘clash of civilizations' as a collision of empires…. [H]is narrative is thrilling as well as thoughtful, a rare combination.”
Washington Times
“There are two stories here worth telling and well told: the blood-and-thunder tale of the heroic defense of Vienna against the Ottomans in 1683, the surge in morale after the Habsburg victory, and the war to recover Hungary and the Balkans from the Turks. The other story is of the obsessive fear and hatred of the Turks in Christian central Europe, exorcised by the Habsburg victory at Vienna, turning to revenge and reconquest led first by Duke Charles of Lorraine, then by the legendary Prince Eugene of Savoy, ending in exhausted and bankrupt stability.”
Telegraph
“[A] riveting narrative, Andrew Wheatcroft'sThe Enemy at the Gate…tells the story of the final Habsburg-Ottoman showdown at the gates of Vienna in 1683, one of the genuine turning points in European history.”
The Weekly Standard
“ “[Wheatcroft's] fourth book is primarily a military history of the clashes between the Habsburg and Ottoman Empires in the 17th century, the fruit of more than 20 years researching in the field…. Some of the most suggestive material here is on military organization, equipment, and tactics.”
Victor Davis Hanson,First Things
“Wheatcroft offers a riveting account of the slow, methodical Ottoman approach to Vienna…. [A] masterful account of the siege and battle.”
Michigan War Studies Review
“Wheatcroft displays exceptional awareness of the power of the printed word not only to crystallize and reproduce specific facts or news for a mass audience, but to preserve and especially propagate a particular opinion of a given subject. Throughout, he strives to distinguish between the actual siege of Vienna in 1683 and the one preserved in the Western imagination, noting print's power to distort and undervalue the humanity of the Ottoman Turks.”
Independent
“Andrew Wheatcroft'sThe Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europebrilliantly reconstructs the climactic conflict between Muslim ‘East' and Christian ‘West', at Vienna in 1683.”
Telegraph
“A masterpiece of historical writing….The story of the siege reads as compellingly as a Dumas novel.”
Literary Review
“Intensely gripping…The Enemy at the Gateis rich and multilayered… Wheatcroft has done us all a service.”
Sunday Telegraph
“A fascinating and compelling story, a clash between a mighty besieging army and one of the major cities of Europe, involving extraordinary efforts and sacrifices on both sides.”
Financial Times
“Ambitious…Wheatcroft is undeniably expert in his field.”
Times Higher Education Supplement
“It is one of the book's strengths that it demonstrates how far Ottomans, Habsburgs and the rest of Europe lived in a common world with borders that were more porous than we usually imagine.”
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In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. The Turks had set their sights on taking Vienna, the city they had long called 'The Golden Apple' since their first siege of the city in 1529.
In 1683, two empires - the Ottoman, based in Constantinople, and the Habsburg dynasty in Vienna - came face to face in the culmination of a 250-year power struggle: the Great Siege of Vienna. The Turks had set their sights on taking Vienna, the city they had long called 'The Golden Apple' since their first siege of the city in 1529.