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! Read ^ Constantinopolis by James D. Shipman Î eBook or Kindle ePUB. Constantinopolis In defiance of his late father’s advisors, Mehmet vows to be the first leader in a millennium to wrench Constantinople from the Christians. Long have the neighboring Turks wanted to claim the city, and Mehmet—the impetuous new Turkish sultan—thinks he and his legions might finally have their chance. He is determined to take the city from the weakened but beloved Emperor Constantine—even if he loses his throne and his life in the process.An epic historical military adventu
| Title | : | Constantinopolis |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.11 (837 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1477827420 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 300 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-01 |
| Language | : | English |
Shipman was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. About the AuthorJames D. Constantinopolis, his first published novel, blends together his love of history and writing. He opened his own law firm in 2004 and is still a practicing attorney today. An avid reader, especially of historical nonfiction, he enjoys traveling and spending time with his three children.. While earning a degree in history from the University of Washington and a law degree from Gonzaga University School of Law, he began publishing short stories and poems; he also completed his first novel during that time. He has served as a superior court judge and commissioner pro tem as well as an arbitrator in hundreds of legal cases
In defiance of his late father’s advisors, Mehmet vows to be the first leader in a millennium to wrench Constantinople from the Christians. Long have the neighboring Turks wanted to claim the city, and Mehmet—the impetuous new Turkish sultan—thinks he and his legions might finally have their chance. He is determined to take the city from the weakened but beloved Emperor Constantine—even if he loses his throne and his life in the process.An epic historical military adventure, Constantinopolis plots out the future of civilization as shaped by a number of fascinating characters, including one leader desperate to save his people from destruction and another determined to lead his nation to glory.Revised edition: This edition of Constantinopolis includes editorial revisions.. For over a thousand years, the medieval city of Constantinople has been the jewel on the crown of the Roman Empire. Now, the once-mighty metropolis is broken down, with its defensive walls in shambles
David Hudnut said The disaster of power. I've always been fascinated by political power structures throughout history. The whys and hows behind the movement of nations against each other and the epic battles that ensued. But I usually lose interest in history books that chronicle such events, because I don't feel like I get inside the human dynamics that existed between the people who make the decisions. This book took me straight inside the heads of the men in power.The main characters are Mehmet, the Sultan of the Ottoman Turks, and Constantine XI, the reigning Greek Emperor of Constantinople. I really got a sense of both these men as huma. Interesting enough read, but the portrayals of Mehmet and Constantine don't ring true C. Winton I've always had some curiosity about the Ottoman Empire and this historical novel provides some insight into the period when Constantinople finally fell (to become Istanbul). It's reasonably well researched and that's the primary benefit of the read. The author takes a lot of liberties with the characters, putting words into their mouths that seldom ring true. The Sultan Mehmet is portrayed as a bi-polar psychopath and the Emperor Constantine as a conflicted and love-struck leader. Mehmet subscribes to Islam as it suits him. Ditto for Constantine for Christianity. Neither lives the kind of life their . "Death and destruction inn Constantinople by young Mehmud the Conqueror. It was like using WW1 guns against a medieval fortress." according to Dayle Smith. If one is going to write historical fiction about the climactic battle between the Last Emperor of Rome, residing in Constantinople 1100 years after the city had been established by Constantine, I would have thought it could have been clearer and less murky in its plotting. Given that is historical fiction one cannot blame the author from departing too much from actual history. But when it is done with the Turkish ruler surrounded by wimps or rogues it stretched credulity to breaking point for me. Having inspected the cannon actually used to blast the walls of Constantinople I was less than impressed
Shipman was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. He has served as a superior court judge and commissioner pro tem as well as an arbitrator in hundreds of legal cases. Constantinopolis, his first published novel, blends together his love of history and writing. An avid reader, especially of historical nonfiction, he enjoys traveling and spending time with his three children.. He opened his own law firm in 2004 and is still a practicing attorney today. While earning a
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