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FROM: Susan Irving <[removed]@lfpl.org>
REC'D: 3/7/01, 3:24 PM

We are looking for a book that is historical fiction concerning the fall of
Constantinople. Our patron has told us that she is sure she read it before
1964. Any ideas?

Susan Irving; St. Matthews/Eline Branch - Louisville Free Public Library

FROM: Dennis Lien <[removed]@tc.umn.edu>
REC'D: 3/8/01, 10:58 AM

At 04:16 PM 3/7/01 -0500, you wrote:
>We are looking for a book that is historical fiction concerning the fall of
>Constantinople. Our patron has told us that she is sure she read it before
>1964. Any ideas?
>
> Susan Irving; St. Matthews/Eline Branch - Louisville Free Public Library


Some possibilities from our catalog:

Donauer, Friedrich, 1884-

The long defence

New York, Toronto, Longmans, Green and co., 1931.

vii p., 1 l., 306 p. col. front., illus., col. plates. 21 cm.

ry of Congress (Use s=):
Istanbul (Turkey)--History--Siege, 1453--Fiction.


Neale, J. M. (John Mason), 1818-1866.

The fall of Constantinople

London, J. M. Dent & sons, ltd., [1913]

xiii, 360 p. 18 cm.

Wallace, Lew, 1827-1905.

The prince of India, or, Why Constantinople fell. -

New York : Grosset, [c1893]

vii, 727 p. ; 20 cm.

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Ludlow, James Meeker, 1841-1932.

The captain of the Janizaries

11th ed.

New York B.W. Dodge & company [c1890].

1 p.l., 404 p. 20 cm.

also via WorldCat:

SPEARS OF DESTINY by Arthur D. Howden Smith (Doran, 1919)
THE DARK ANGEL by Mika Waltari (Putnam 1953)
THE EMPEROR'S WINDING-SHEET by Jill Patton-Walsh (Farrar 1992)
DIMITRIOS AND IRENE by Charles W. Currier (McCann 1894)
FLAMES ON THE BOSPHORUS by Luigi Motta (Odhams 1920)
THE FALL OF CONSTANTINOPLE by A. Wall (Hutchinson 1897)
THE GENTLE INFIDEL by Lawrence L. Schoonover (Macmillan 1950)

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // [removed]@tc.umn.edu

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