The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe [Audiobook]

The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle on this account that Europe [Audiobook]
ISBN: n/a, ASIN: B002R85JEK | 2009 | MP3@96 kbps | ~11:23:00 | 474 MB

In 1683, one Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon stud out to seize the "Golden Apple", similar to Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing investment pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wielding 17th-hundred years grenades against Habsburg armies, widely feared because their savagery. The walls of Vienna bristled with guns as the besieging Ottoman consecrated wafer launched bombs, fired cannons, and showered the the vulgar with arrows during the battle by reason of Christianity's bulwark. Each side was sustained by the hatred of its age-crafty enemy, certain that victory would subsist won by the grace of God.