
Victory of the West
The Story of the Battle of Lepanto
Niccolo Capponi(Author)
Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 21. July 2006
Book
Hardback
368 pages
978-1-4050-4588-9 (ISBN)
Description
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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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Pan Macmillan
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 39 mm
Weight
738 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4050-4588-9 (9781405045889)
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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