The 2014 Medieval Warfare Special issue is entirely dedicated - all 84 pages - to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453. It's like a normal issue, except it'll have more pages, more articles, more maps and more illustrations! Medieval Warfare Special 2014: 1453 - The Conquest of Constantinople with: - Eugenia Russel, Historical introduction - the destruction of the Oikoumeni - Kenneth Cline, Constantine XI - no room to maneuver - Murat Ozveri, Mehmed 'the Conqueror' - A sultan of paradoxes - Nicola Bergamo, Venice, Genoa and Byzantium - difficult 'trio' - Konstantin Nossov, The walls of Constantinople - Stephen Bennett & Nils Visser, The Conquest of Constantinople - Murray Dahm, Fallout - Contemporary reactions to the loss of Constantinople - Lukasz Rozycki, The fall of the Old World through the eyes of the "Polish janissary" - Raffaele D'Amato, The last defenders - the Roman army - Vassilis Pergalias, The final opponents - the Ottoman army - Ben Sheppard, Aftermath
