In Review

摘要

Wars between Christian and Islamic lands were fought for centuries, but none was so vicious, savage, or important as the 16th-century struggle for control of the Mediterranean Sea.rnHistorian Roger Crowley has written a gripping account of this titanic rnconflict between European Christians and Ottoman Turks, including the fall of Rhodes in 1521 to thernTurks, the siege of Malta in l565, and the climactic naval battle and decisive Christian victory at Lepanto in 1571.