Muslim Christian fighting along the Mediterranean had been the occurring for centuries and climaxed in the greatest sea battle of all time. The Christian extraordinary victory at Lepanto saved millions of Christians from further falling under the control of the Turks and a book called "Empire Of The Sea" by historian Roger Crowley looks a century of key battles it focuses on the crucial years of 1565 to 1571 when practically the Turks and the Spaniards fought their empires into massive debt that would be the start of their sudden declines n the upcoming two centuries.Crowley is an old dude that has spent alot of time in these places studying and researching the history of the Mediterranean. 
The climatic final sea battle would establish the frontiers and end the era of galley battles alongside this sea. This book covers the beginning of the great Mediterranean Sea contest from the Ottoman invasion of Rhodes to Lepanto and the great Christian coalition that was formed to destroy Turkish supremacy of the seas. The great Spanish sea captain Don Juan would lead the final victory in a risky plan that exposed all of Southern Europe if Spanish and Italian fleets had been destroyed. Crowley goes through the role of the Venetian in thwarting further expansion of Ottomon power trough the ages and how this victory finally gave Europe some relief and convinced many that the turban devils were to invincible. This book covers incredible sea captains from both sides such as Doria and Barbarossa and the author through fully researched the invasion of Malta and its crucial resistance in stopping the Turks from further island gains. This book gives the reader and excellent sense of siege and trench warfare in an era where guns were first developed and the primary shock weapons. Modern warfare was developing and the battle of Lepanto saw the worse carnage in one battle the world ever saw nor would see again until 1916. The Turks would never be a threat again and wold concentrate on Eastern Europe and Persia after this costly siege and disaster although the Christians failed to follow up on the victory and allowed North African corsairs to pillage the seas for the next two hundred years putting many white Christians to slavery all over the Middle East. It would take a young nation called the United States to end this piracy that caused havoc and carried millions away from their native lands and into Islam
The climatic final sea battle would establish the frontiers and end the era of galley battles alongside this sea. This book covers the beginning of the great Mediterranean Sea contest from the Ottoman invasion of Rhodes to Lepanto and the great Christian coalition that was formed to destroy Turkish supremacy of the seas. The great Spanish sea captain Don Juan would lead the final victory in a risky plan that exposed all of Southern Europe if Spanish and Italian fleets had been destroyed. Crowley goes through the role of the Venetian in thwarting further expansion of Ottomon power trough the ages and how this victory finally gave Europe some relief and convinced many that the turban devils were to invincible. This book covers incredible sea captains from both sides such as Doria and Barbarossa and the author through fully researched the invasion of Malta and its crucial resistance in stopping the Turks from further island gains. This book gives the reader and excellent sense of siege and trench warfare in an era where guns were first developed and the primary shock weapons. Modern warfare was developing and the battle of Lepanto saw the worse carnage in one battle the world ever saw nor would see again until 1916. The Turks would never be a threat again and wold concentrate on Eastern Europe and Persia after this costly siege and disaster although the Christians failed to follow up on the victory and allowed North African corsairs to pillage the seas for the next two hundred years putting many white Christians to slavery all over the Middle East. It would take a young nation called the United States to end this piracy that caused havoc and carried millions away from their native lands and into Islam
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