1453: The Conquest of Constantinople: 2014 Medieval Warfare Special EditionPaperback, 19 December 2014

The 2014 Medieval Warfare Special Issue is entirely dedicated - all 84 pages - to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. It's like a normal issue, except it'll have more pages, more articles, more maps and more illustrations!

Medieval Warfare Special 2014: 1453 - The Conquest of Constantinople with:

- Eugenia Russel, Historical introduction - the destruction of the Oikoumeni

• Kenneth Cline, Constantine XI - no room to maneuver
• Murat Özveri, Mehmed 'the Conqueror' - A sultan of paradoxes
• Nicola Bergamo, Venice, Genoa and Byzantium - difficult 'trio'
• Konstantin Nossov, The walls of Constantinople
• Stephen Bennett & Nils Visser, The Conquest of Constantinople
• Murray Dahm, Fallout - Contemporary reactions to the loss of Constantinople
• Lukasz Rozycki, The fall of the Old World through the eyes of the "Polish janissary"
• Raffaele D'Amato, The last defenders - the Roman army
• Vassilis Pergalias, The final opponents - the Ottoman army
• Ben Sheppard, Aftermath