In The Battle for Central Europe specialists in sixteenth-century Ottoman, Habsburg and Hungarian history provide the most comprehensive picture possible of a battle that determined the fate of Central Europe for centuries. Not only the siege and the death of its main protagonists are discussed, but also the wider context of the imperial rivalry and the empire buildings of the competing great powers of that age.



Contributors include Gabor Agoston, Janos B. Szabo, Zsuzsa Barbarics-Hermanik, Gunhan Boerekci, Feridun M. Emecen, Alfredo Alvar Ezquerra, Istvan Fazekas, Pal Fodor, Klara Hegyi, Colin Imber, Damir Karbic, Jozsef Kelenik, Zoltan Korpas, Tijana Krstic, Nenad Moacanin,
Gulru Neci poglu, Erol OEzvar, Geza Palffy, Norbert Pap, Peter Rauscher, Claudia Roemer, Arno Strohmeyer, Zeynep Tarim, James D. Tracy,
Gabor Tuskes, Szabolcs Varga, Nicolas Vatin.