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Article: The summer of 1683.("The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe")(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- October 1, 2009
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THE ENEMY AT THE GATE: HAPSBURGS, OTTOMANS, AND THE BATTLE FOR EUROPE
by ANDREW WHETCROFT
Basic, 368 pages, $27.50
WE USUALLY ASSOCIATE the struggles for control of the southern European and Mediterranean worlds with the horrific encounters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries--the final decades of the Spanish Reconquista, the fall of Constantinople, the Battle of Lepanto, and the failed attempt of Suleiman the Magnificent to capture Vienna in 1529.
That Ottoman catastrophe at Vienna, along with the Turkish defeat at Lepanto in 1571, are usually cited as indications of Ottoman decline, as the threat from the East receded from ...