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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World » (Bargain)

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Authors: Roger Crowley
ISBN-13: 9780594008460, ISBN-10: 0594008468
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: July 2008
Edition: Bargain

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Author Biography: Roger Crowley

JOHN LEE is a well-known herbalist, who practices in North Carolina and lectures widely.

Book Synopsis

Set during the height of the Ottoman Empire and with Christendom weakened and vulnerable, this is the story of the fifty-year battle for domination of the Mediterranean, centered around the titanic battles of Rhodes, Malta, and Lepanto—-three of the most dramatic and decisive battles in world history.

The Barnes & Noble Review

Europe has witnessed some bitter conflicts in its time, but for sheer savagery and blind religious fervour, few can match the 16th-century struggle for the mastery of the Mediterranean between the Ottoman Turks and the loose association of Christian states sheltering under the Hapsburg flag. For nearly 60 years, between 1521 and 1580, these two implacable enemies, fired by the certainty of their spiritual calling and driven by the absolute otherness of their foes, slugged it out for strategic supremacy of the sea, matching atrocity with atrocity as they searched for the blow that would floor their opponent.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Ptolemy's Map

Map: The Mediterranean c. 1560

Map: The Siege of Malta

Map: The Battle of Lepanto

Pt. 1 Caesars: The Contest for the Sea

Ch. 1 The Sultan Pays a Visit 3

Ch. 2 A Supplication 23

Ch. 3 The King of Evil 34

Ch. 4 The Voyage to Tunis 44

Ch. 5 Doria and Barbarossa 57

Ch. 6 The Turkish Sea 66

Pt. 2 Epicenter: The Battle for Malta

Ch. 7 Nest of Vipers 85

Ch. 8 Invasion Fleet 98

Ch. 9 The Post of Death 109

Ch. 10 The Ravelin of Europe 123

Ch. 11 The Last Swimmers 135

Ch. 12 Payback 142

Ch. 13 Trench Wars 156

Ch. 14 "Malta Yok" 173

Pt. 3 Endgame: Hurtling to Lepanto

Ch. 15 The Pope's Dream 191

Ch. 16 A Head in a Dish 204

Ch. 17 Famagusta 221

Ch. 18 Christ's General 231

Ch. 19 Snakes to a Charm 242

Ch. 20 "Let's Fight" 255

Ch. 21 Sea of Fire 266

Ch. 22 Other Oceans 278

Epilogue: Traces 289

Author's Note and Acknowledgments 293

Source Notes 297

Bibliography 311

Index 317

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