Author:
Millar, Simon.
Imprint:Oxford : Osprey, 2008 (2014 printing)
Description96 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 25 cm.
Note:Copyright 2008 by Osprey Publishing Ltd. ; 6th impression 2013 ; Transferred to digital print on demand 2014.
Note:Introduction -- Chronology -- Opposing commanders -- Order of battle -- Opposing armies -- The campaign begins -- The siege of Vienna - The battle of Kahlenberg -- The aftermath -- The battlefields today.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 94) and index.
Note:Osprey's study of a battle that was part of a triple conflict: the Polish-Ottoman War (1683-1699), the Great Turkish War (1667-1698), and the Ottoman Hapsburg Wars (1526-1791). The capture of the Hapsburg city of Vienna was a major strategic aspiration for the Islamic Ottoman Empire, desperate for the control that the city exercised over the Danube and the overland trade routes between southern and northern Europe. In July 1683 Sultan Mehmet IV proclaimed a jihad and the Turkish grand vizier, Kara Mustafa Pasha, laid siege to the city with an army of 150,000 men.
