A review by mysterybuff
1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West by Roger Crowley

4.0

I'm not a huge fan of history books - but this one was well worth the read. It was lively (not the dry stuff we had to digest in college) and was interesting. A good read if you are interested in why the Turks were so gunho on capturing Constantinople (and if you ever wondered why they chanced the name to Istanbul).