Victory of the West by Niccolo Capponi
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.
Born and raised in Florence, Niccolo Capponi is a historian specialized in military matters. After earning his PhD at the University of Padua, he was for three years a Fellow at the Medici Archive Project and has published extensively in Italian as well as in English
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405045889 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405045884 |
| Title | Victory of the West |
| Author | Niccolo Capponi |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2006-07-21 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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