The Dark Angel Audiobook by Mika Waltari

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/47/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Dark Angel Author: Mika Waltari Narrator: Charlton Griffin Format: Unabridged Length: 13 hrs and 53 mins Language: English Release date: 04-29-14 Publisher: Audio Connoisseur Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 21 votes Genres: Classics, European Literature Publisher's Summary: Ancient Constantinople, the glorious capital of the Eastern Roman Empire for over 1,000 years, and the jewel of Christendom, is the setting for this incredible historical novel. No other city in the world could compare with it in grandeur, splendor, and wealth. And when it fell to the Turks in 1453, it must have seemed like the end of the world to Christians. Famed author Mika Waltari takes us into the last months of this dying city as revealed in the diary of John Angelos, a strange man hopelessly in love with the daughter of an eminent Byzantine official. In this powerful novel which closely follows actual historical events and personalities, Waltari explores the passions and follies of a civilization on the brink of disaster. With shrewd psychological insight, Waltari provides us with an unbelievable tapestry of false hopes, dogged determination, and fanatic religious faith as seen through the eyes of the 15th century Greeks and Italians who valiantly defended the city to the bitter end. With chaos and despair deepening into a pall of gloom, the sultan's huge army surrounds Constantinople and assaults its massive walls. We peer over the shoulder of John Angelos as he dons his armor and plunges into the tumultuous events taking place amid smoldering suspicions of betrayal and assassination. But as always, the beautiful Anna Notaras lingers in his imaginationListeners will gain even greater enjoyment by perusing the Wikipedia article "Fall of Constantinople", as well as availing themselves of the accompanying maps.