AGONY OF FLAME & THE FURY & THE MIRE

Parts Three and Four of The Last Vigil. A two-part climax to The Last Vigil, An Agony of Flame and The Fury and the Mire, concludes the story of the fall of Constantinople. Here is an intense evocation, both of the gruelling eight-week siege itself and of the chaotic as well as terrifying aftermath. In part three, Niccolo and Demetrius serve on the great Roman land walls, enduring bombardment and nocturnal hand-to-hand combat. Nestor-Iskander reappears, a deserter now from the Turkish camp. Niccolo is badly wounded, recovering in Theodoras house in the suburb of Studion. Then comes the night of the final Ottoman assault when, after a

Partile trei si patru din Ultima priveghere. Un punct culminant in doua parti la Ultima priveghere, O agonie a flacarii si Fury and the Mire, incheie povestea caderii Constantinopolului.