Constantinople 1453: 7,000 Defenders Resisted 80,000 Ottomans Until the Walls Fell скачать в хорошем качестве

Constantinople 1453: 7,000 Defenders Resisted 80,000 Ottomans Until the Walls Fell

May 29, 1453. 7,000 exhausted defenders face 80,000 Ottoman warriors in history's most desperate siege. Emperor Constantine XI stands on crumbling walls as the largest cannons ever built pulverize fortifications that had stood for 1,000 years. For 53 days, they held the impossible. Then one unlocked gate doomed an empire. This is the story of the Fall of Constantinople—where the last Roman emperor charged to his death sword in hand, where Italian mercenaries defied mathematics itself, and where a 21-year-old sultan achieved what generations before him failed to accomplish. Discover the unlocked Kerkoporta gate that ended Rome. The ships that sailed over mountains. The underground war fought in total darkness. And Constantine's final words before he tore off his imperial regalia and vanished into legend. The siege that changed the world forever.