"The Enemy at the Gate
Review by Virginia Rounding
Published: August 18 2008 06:41 | Last updated: August 18 2008 06:41
The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe
By Andrew Wheatcroft
Bodley Head £20, 384 pages
FT Bookshop price: £16
Andrew Wheatcroft states that fear is the main topic in his ambitious Enemy at the Gate : “first of all about Europe’s fear of Turks and then, by the end, about fear itself”. In the process, he sets out to answer two questions: first, why did the Habsburgs and the Ottomans fight each other for so long and, second, why did they finally stop fighting?"
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