1977, ISBN: 9780091255503

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: Hutchinson & Co], Wichtige Hinweise zum Zustand: Schutzumschlag etwas kaputt. To the general reader, the Khazars, a people of Turkish stock who flourished … Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: Hutchinson & Co], Wichtige Hinweise zum Zustand: Schutzumschlag etwas kaputt. To the general reader, the Khazars, a people of Turkish stock who flourished in the Middle Ages, may seem infinitely remote. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on the world we know today. It emerges as Arthur Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe at about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. Their sway extended between the Black Sea and the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga. The Khazars were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that, in the West, swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers, the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out in a striking simile, they were the Third Force of their day, and they chose an unexpected method of resisting the Western pressure to become Christian, the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both they converted to Judaism. , DE, [SC: 2.50], deutliche Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, 27mmx145mmx222mm, 255, [GW: 472g], [PU: London], 3, Banküberweisung, PayPal, Klarna-Sofortüberweisung, [CT: Geschichte/Politik / Mittelalter]<

1977, ISBN: 9780091255503

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: Hutchinson & Co], Wichtige Hinweise zum Zustand: Schutzumschlag etwas kaputt. To the general reader, the Khazars, a people of Turkish stock who flourished … Mehr…

[ED: Hardcover/gebunden], [PU: Hutchinson & Co], Wichtige Hinweise zum Zustand: Schutzumschlag etwas kaputt. To the general reader, the Khazars, a people of Turkish stock who flourished in the Middle Ages, may seem infinitely remote. Yet they have a close and unexpected bearing on the world we know today. It emerges as Arthur Koestler recounts the fascinating history of the ancient Khazar Empire, a major but almost forgotten power in Eastern Europe at about the time that Charlemagne was Emperor in the West. Their sway extended between the Black Sea and the Caspian, from the Caucasus to the Volga. The Khazars were instrumental in stopping the Muslim onslaught against Byzantium, the eastern jaw of the gigantic pincer movement that, in the West, swept across northern Africa and into Spain. Thereafter the Khazars found themselves in a precarious position between the two major world powers, the Eastern Roman Empire in Byzantium and the triumphant followers of Mohammed. As Koestler points out in a striking simile, they were the Third Force of their day, and they chose an unexpected method of resisting the Western pressure to become Christian, the Eastern to adopt Islam. Rejecting both they converted to Judaism. , DE, [SC: 2.50], deutliche Gebrauchsspuren, gewerbliches Angebot, 27mmx145mmx222mm, 255, [GW: 472g], [PU: London], 3, Banküberweisung, PayPal, [CT: Geschichte/Politik / Mittelalter]<

1976, ISBN: 0091255503

[EAN: 9780091255503], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: Hutchinson, Random House], Used, Books