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Byzantium : the decline and fall / John Julius Norwich

This final volume chronicles the decline of the Byzantine Empire from 1071. It examines the impact of the Fourth Crusade's sacking of Constantinople and the empire's final struggle against the advancing Ottoman Turks.
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