Dimensions
130 x 197 x 28mm
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.
