This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city’s plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the Greeks, the conquest meant the e...(展开全部)

This classic account shows how the fall of Constantinople in May 1453, after a siege of several weeks, came as a bitter shock to Western Christendom. The city’s plight had been neglected, and negligible help was sent in this crisis. To the Turks, victory not only brought a new imperial capital, but guaranteed that their empire would last. To the Greeks, the conquest meant the e...(展开全部)

埃德温·皮尔斯（Edwin Pears），19世纪的英国历史学者，专长于有关十字军、中世纪时期希腊和拜占庭历史方面的研究。代表作有《攻陷君士坦丁堡：第四次十字军东征与东罗马帝国的灭亡》《希腊的毁灭和君士坦丁堡被占领》等。

埃德温·皮尔斯（Edwin Pears），19世纪的英国历史学者，专长于有关十字军、中世纪时期希腊和拜占庭历史方面的研究。代表作有《攻陷君士坦丁堡：第四次十字军东征与东罗马帝国的灭亡》《希腊的毁灭和君士坦丁堡被占领》等。

埃德温·皮尔斯（Edwin Pears），19世纪的英国历史学者，专长于有关十字军、中世纪时期希腊和拜占庭历史方面的研究。代表作有《攻陷君士坦丁堡：第四次十字军东征与东罗马帝国的灭亡》《希腊的毁灭和君士坦丁堡被占领》等。

Eileen Chang is now recognized as one of the greatest modern Chinese writers, though she was completely erased from official histories in chinese mainland. These previously unpublished, semi-autobiographical novels depict in gripping detail her childhood years in Tianjin and Shanghai, as well as her student days in Hong Kong during World War II, and shed light on the constructi...(展开全部)

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in "Hyperion,"Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secretsthey contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever bethe same.

In the stunning continuation of the epic adventure begun in "Hyperion,"Simmons returns us to a far future resplendent with drama and invention. Onthe world of Hyperion, the mysterious Time Tombs are opening. And the secretsthey contain mean that nothing--nothing anywhere in the universe--will ever bethe same.

Yet that might and that greatness were reduced to a mere show before his long reign terminated; and the Moghul Empire resembled -- to use a familiar image -- one of those Etruscan corpses which, though crowned and armed, are destined to crumble at the breath of heaven or at the touch of human hands. And still more did it resemble some splendid palace.

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