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Old Constantinople, the glorious capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for over 1,000 years, and the jewel of Christendom, is the environment for this outstanding historical novel. No other city on earth could equate to it in grandeur, splendor, and riches. So when it fell to the Turks in 1453, it must have seemed like the end of the world to Christians. Famed author Mika Waltari calls for us in to the last months of the dying city as exposed in the journal of John Angelos, a unusual man hopelessly in love with the daughter of any eminent Byzantine standard. In this particular powerful book which closely employs actual historical happenings and personalities, Waltari explores the passions and follies of your civilization on the brink of disaster. With shrewd internal understanding, Waltari provides us with an unbelievable tapestry of wrong hopes, dogged determination, and fanatic spiritual faith as seen through the sight of the 15th century Greeks and Italians who valiantly defended the town to the bitter end. With chaos and despair deepening into a pall of gloom, the sultan's huge army surrounds Constantinople and assaults its considerable surfaces. We peer in the shoulder of John Angelos as he dons his shield and plunges in to the tumultuous events occurring amid smoldering suspicions of betrayal and assassination. But as always, the beautiful Anna Notaras lingers in his creativity...Listeners will gain even greater enjoyment by perusing the Wikipedia article "Land of Constantinople", as well as availing themselves of the accompanying maps.
