Vienna 1683 - The history and consequences of the defeat of the Turks before Vienna, September 12, 1683, by John Sobieski, King of Poland and Charles Leopoldo, Duke of Lorraine by Henry Elliot Malden 1883
Written two hundred years after the siege, this history of the Christian
victory of Sobeieski was enacted around several of the hills near where we were
staying in Vienna. Most telling part of the book is its end, where Sobieski
leaves as victor, but leader of a nation that would soon lose everything, while
those allied with him went from strength to strength and at Poland's expense.
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