On May 29 1453 a 21-year-old Sultan did what emperors and caliphs had failed to do for 800 years.
He moved ships over mountains. He shattered walls that had never fallen. And he fulfilled a prophecy that had waited eight centuries to come true.
This is not just the story of a siege. This is the story of the day the Middle Ages ended and the modern world began.
What You Will Discover Inside
The Sacred Prophecy Why Muslims across eight centuries believed Constantinople was destined to fall and how one elderly companion of the Prophet PBUH was buried beneath its very walls in 674 AD waiting for that day.
The Impregnable Fortress The extraordinary triple-wall system the massive iron chain and the secret underground cisterns that made Constantinople the most unconquerable city on earth for 1000 years.
The Young Visionary How the 19-year-old Sultan Mehmed II obsessed over maps of Constantinople mastered seven languages built the worlds largest cannon and outmaneuvered every general who said it was impossible.
The Impossible Masterstroke The night 70 warships were dragged over a 200-foot hill on greased wooden planks appearing at dawn inside the citys safe harbour a military manoeuvre that still stuns historians today.
The Final 53 Days Hour-by-hour the thunderous artillery the desperate repairs by candlelight the naval battles and the last stand of Emperor Constantine XI.
The Legacy That Reshaped the World How the fall of one city triggered the Renaissance the Age of Discovery the accidental founding of America and the rise of a new global superpower.
This Complete Edition includes all nine chapters an epilogue on modern Istanbul and a full bibliography written in vivid narrative style accessible to every reader.
Impregnable walls can be breached when met with a vision that refuses to accept the word impossible.
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