The battle that supposedly saved Western civilisation, which started on 6 August 1566, when a huge Ottoman army changed its course to put an end to a small group of defiant Croatians and Hungarians.
It’s early 1566, and Suleiman the Magnificent, ruler of the Ottoman Empire for the last 46 years, embarks on his 13th military campaign with the goal of taking Vienna from the hands of the West. He’s 72, got gout and has to be carried in a litter. Nonetheless, he’s determined to go to war anyway.
