O Telefteos Paleologos

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Author: Giorgos Leonardos
Format: Softcover
Pages: 541
Language: Greek

In this last novel of his trilogy of the Paleologous, the multiple award winner of historical fiction, Giorgos Leonardos, deals with the last Emperor of the Byzantine, Konstantinos Paleologos and the capture of Kontantinople. With colorful writing and Venetian, Turkish and of course Greek sources, the narrative exceeds the known writings of this same subject. How hard did the Greeks fight the Turks in order to save Konstantinople and how hard did the Latin Catholics fight? Who betrayed Konstatino Paleogo and raised the Ottoman flag in the tower of Vlahernon while he continued to fight at the centre of the City's fortified walls? And what happened after the collapse of the Byzantine Empire? What future roads did the protagonists travel? Did they raise the flag of resistance or did they bow down to Turkish rule? The answers to these questions unfold in the reenactment of events and characters that marked this epoch of the 15th century as they sink the reader in the social maelstrom and the chaos of Western Europe and the Byzantine. One more book of Giorgos Leonardou that will impress and invite many discussions.