Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press. Very Good. Date: 2011. First Edition?. Paperback. 8.4 X 5.6 X 0.9 inches. VERY GOOD CONDITION, clean, solid, bright; white & red titles on glossy black paper covers..Front cover art shows castle with battle closeby, fires, moat, soldiers ; 320 pages; 1566, Croatian Count Miklós Zrínyi defended the Fortress of Szigetvár against an overwhelming Ottoman siege for 33 days. In the end, with troops and supplies exhausted, he led the remainder of his men in a last charge into the enemy lines, killing thousands before being killed themselves. . 2011. Catholic University of America Press ISBN 0813218616 9780813218618 [US]

Paperback / softback. New. In 1566, Croatian Count Miklos Zrinyi defended the Fortress of Szigetvar against an overwhelming Ottoman siege for 33 days. In the end, with troops and supplies exhausted, he led the remainder of his men in a last charge into the enemy lines, killing thousands before being killed themselves. Almost a hundred years later in 1651, Zrinyi's great-grandson, also Miklos Zrinyi and himself a famed general, composed an epic poem of some 1,500 stanzas recalling in vivid and often fantastic detail the events of the siege, the heroes on both sides, and the climactic final sortie that led to defeat for the Hungarians and painfully empty victory for the Turks. The epic, written in the fashion of Homer and Tasso, does not content itself with just a historical retelling, however. Written when the Ottoman threat was again looming large over all of Europe, the poet sought to marshal his countrymen, and indeed all Christians, against the cause of the overwhelming forces from the East. He framed his story, therefore, in the larger context of God's burning anger against the apostasy of his followers, which he uses the Turkish invasion to punish. It is only with a return to piety that the Christians can restore God's favor, but if they do -- woe to their invaders! The hero, Zrinyi, is one such believer, who is as likely to give a moving speech on the righteousness and supremacy of God's will as he is to massacre those who would assault his home. ...

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