The Re-conquest of Constantinople, (Paperback)

<p><strong>What if we could go back and re-make history?</strong> What if the last king of Poland/Grand Duke of Lithuania had not died childless in 1572, but had produced an heir: <strong>Casimir V</strong>? What if, carried away with zeal, he mustered the forces of European Christendom to mount a new crusade to <strong>re-capture Constantinople, </strong> lost to the <strong>Moslem Ottomans</strong> in 1453? Meet his childhood friend and skeptical chancellor <strong>Jan Zamoyski, </strong>and <strong>Fr. Peter Skarga</strong>, SJ, who started it all with his visions. Meet the magnate Michael <strong>Radziwill</strong>, who, under cover of supporting the crusade, is working against it, with an Ottoman guarantee of setting up his own state in Moldova. Meet the 1400-pound <strong>Sultan Murad III</strong> and his confused grand vizier Ibrahim Pasha: carried away from Christian Bulgaria as a boy, turned into a <strong>janissary</strong>, and, altho secretly Christian, working against the Crusade. Journey with the vast army from <strong>Krakow, </strong>thru<strong> Chocim, Adrianople</strong>, then finally as they besiege the city's <strong>Theodosian Walls</strong>. Be present when <strong>Hagia Sophia</strong> is re-dedicated by a re-united Christendom of <strong>Catholic and Orthodox</strong> worshippers. </p>

• The Re-conquest of Constantinople, (Paperback)
• Author: Gerald R. Schmidt
• ISBN: 9798235840669
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-06-28
• Page Count: 804