the Charge That Saved Europe: Winged Hussars and Relief of Vienna, 1683

On the afternoon of September 12, 1683, the fate of Europe hung on a single cavalry charge. As Ottoman sappers tunneled toward the walls of Vienna, 20,000 Polish Winged Hussars thundered down the Kahlenberg slopes-the largest cavalry assault in history, shattering a two-month siege and turning the tide of a 300-year war.This edition breaks down that pivotal moment with 4 original tactical diagrams and maps showing the siege lines, the Ottoman deployment, the allied march through the Vienna Woods, and the phase-by-phase mechanics of the hussar charge. Order-of-battle tables detail every regiment and commander. Anecdotes are sourced directly to ancient and primary historians-from the Polish diarist Jan Chryzostom Pasek to the Ottoman chronicler Silahdar Findiklili Mehmed Aga-by name.For readers of narrative military history who want the story and the strategy.