Andrew Wheatcroft is the author of Infidels, The Habsburgs, and The Ottomans, and numerous other books. He lives in Scotland.
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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 wielding seventeenth-century grenades against Habsburg armies, widely fe... SEE MORE