Скачать или смотреть Anatomy of a Collapse: How a River Betrayed the World's Greatest City (Baghdad 1258) #3

In the dead of night, February 1258, the first stone from a Mongol mangonel strikes the walls of Baghdad. It is not just an attack; it is a diagnosis. The city, the glittering center of the Islamic Golden Age, is about to find out how sick it truly is.

Inside, Caliph al-Musta'sim is paralyzed by indecision, trapped between a vizier urging surrender and a general demanding a glorious last stand. Outside, Hulagu Khan's perfectly integrated war machine isn't just preparing to attack the walls—it's preparing to weaponize the very river that gives the city life. Chinese engineers, Persian siege masters, and Armenian allies all work in concert, driven by a logistical clock that is ticking towards the spring floods.

This is not the story of a barbarian horde. This is the story of a systematic, calculated, and terrifyingly modern collapse. We will take you inside the Caliph's frantic court, onto the walls with the doomed defenders, and into the Mongol camp to witness the cold science of siegecraft. You will see how years of neglected infrastructure and political division become fatal vulnerabilities, and how a river can be turned from a lifeline into a murder weapon.

Was Baghdad's fall inevitable, or was it the result of a few catastrophic decisions? Join us as we perform an autopsy on the death of a golden age.

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Baghdad 1258, Mongol siege, Hulagu Khan