Victory of the West: The Story of the Battle of Lepanto - Hardcover

Capponi, Niccolo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1405045884 ISBN 13: 9781405045889

Verlag: Macmillan, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

On 7 October 1571, on the gulf between mainland Greece and the Peloponnese, the fleets of the Ottoman Empire and the Christian Holy League met in a battle that would prove the crux of that century's war between Christianity and Islam. No naval battle until Jutland in 1916 - not even Trafalgar - involved such numerous forces, and in no previous encounter with the Ottomans had the Christians met with success. In this compelling piece of narrative history, Niccolo Capponi takes a fresh look at the last great, bloody, and crucial showdown between oared fighting galleys, which - like the legendary battles of Salamis, Waterloo and Stalingrad - halted the progress of a force that had hitherto seemed unstoppable.

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Críticas:

A vivid new account of one of the most decisive military encounters in history"

Biografía del autor:

Niccolo Capponi is a fellow at the Medici Archive Project in Florence and an eminent Italian historian. He has published a number of articles and several books. This is his first book for the UK trade.

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• Verlag: Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1405045884
• ISBN 13: 9781405045889
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368