books.google.ca - Constantine XI Palaiologos was the last Christian Emperor of Constantinople and Byzantium. In 1453, when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Turks, he was last seen fighting at the city walls, but the actual circumstances of his death have remained surrounded in myth. In the years that followed it was...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Immortal_Emperor.html?id=lnSmnmL984YC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Immortal Emperor