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The Bone of Empires: A History of the Sieges of Buda

by Clarke Dungannon
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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9798235814066
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Mark Kelly
  • Publisher Imprint: Mark Kelly
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  • Pages: 778
  • Original Price: GBP 33.99
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 885 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / General

The Bone of Empires: A History of the Sieges of Buda

For seven centuries, the limestone plateau of Buda Castle above the Danube has been the most contested piece of ground in central Europe. From B�la IV's construction of the first fortifications in the aftermath of the 1241 Mongol invasion, through the Ottoman occupation of 1541, the three failed Habsburg sieges of the Long Turkish War, the Holy League's seventy-six-day campaign of 1686, the Hungarian revolutionary storm of 1849, and the catastrophic Soviet-German siege of 1944 to 1945, the hill above the Danube crossing has been the place where the argument about who owns the centre of Europe has been made most directly, most violently, and most consequentially.

The Bone of Empires traces this extraordinary military and political history in full, examining not only the sieges themselves, their logistics, their tactics, their commanders, and their human cost, but the deeper questions they illuminate: about the relationship between geography and power, about the use of the fortress as political symbol, about the persecution of civilian communities in the aftermath of military victory, and about the contested memorial landscape of a contemporary city still arguing, in monuments and counter-monuments, about what its layered and violent past means for its present. A comprehensive, narrative history of one of the great strategic fortresses of European civilisation.

Dungannon, Clarke: - "

Clarke Dungannon is an Irish historian and writer with a lifelong interest in the military history of Central and Eastern Europe. Born and educated in Ireland, he has spent many years researching the great contested frontiers of European history - the borderlands where empires met, fought, and left their marks in stone and memory. His particular passion is for the fortresses and sieges of the early modern period: the mechanics of attack and defence, the human cost of contested ground, and the way in which military events shape the political and cultural landscape of the centuries that follow.

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