History of Mehmed the Conqueror

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The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks is regarded as one of the decisive incidents in the history of the world, and its conqueror as one of the great leaders of men. Soon after 1453, Kritoboulos, a Byzantine Greek, came to Istanbul, entered the servce of Mehmed II, and wrote a biography of him....the present scholarly translation is the first into any Western language... Kritoboulos wrote in a direct and vivd style which gives the reader the sense of being present at the scenes described.-U.S. Quarterly Book Review
"The conquest of Constantinople by the Turks is regarded as one of the decisive incidents in the history of the world, and its conqueror as one of the great leaders of men. Soon after 1453, Kritoboulos, a Byzantine Greek, came to Istanbul, entered the servce of Mehmed II, and wrote a biography of him....the present scholarly translation is the first into any Western language... Kritoboulos wrote in a direct and vivd style which gives the reader the sense of being present at the scenes described."-U.S. Quarterly Book Review