An Oxford prize essay traces the career of John III Sobieski against the strange constitution of the Polish republic: his campaigns against Cossacks, Tatars and Turks, his election as king, his struggles with an unruly nobility, and the relief of Vienna in 1683 that made him the hero of Christian Europe.
A compact study of one of Europe’s great soldier-kings, for readers of Polish and military history. Download the free EPUB.