In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the “Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wiel
In this reprint from 2009, Wheatcroft (international publishing and communication, U. of Stirling, UK) examines the Holy War fought for two and a half centuries by the Christian Habsburgs from Vienna
