G333 Book Review of Vienna's Last Jihad by C Wayne Dawson
Name of Book: Vienna's Last Jihad Author: C Wayne Dawson ISBN: 9781490426341 Publisher: Createspace Type of book: Vienna, Turks, culture, ideas from enemy, siege, war, 1683, family, sacrifice, creative problem solving, conflict, mysteries, open-mindedness, adventure Year it was published: 2013 Summary: Brash and brilliant, twenty year old Mathis Zieglar, Professor of Languages, faces an agonizing choice: should he fight the Turks who take his family hostage and move to destroy Vienna? Or should he betray his army to save his kin? Vienna’s Last Jihad is an historical novel set against the 1683 siege of Vienna. Europe is balanced on a knife’s edge while Mathis, the man who holds its fate in his hands, struggles against powerful enemies: Father Sistini, a Jesuit who brands him a heretic and drags Mathis’ fiancée off to the Inquisition; a xenophobic city mob, who wants him dead for protecting a Hungarian soldier; but most dangerous of all, Captain Tyrek, a Muslim ...