Victory of the West
The Story of the Battle of Lepanto

By Niccolò Capponi
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications

November 2006
Macmillan
ISBN: 1405045884
412 pages, Illustrated, 6¼ x 9½"
$45.00 Hardcover


October 2007
Pan Books
ISBN: 9780330431583
412 Pages, 5 1/8 x 7 3/4"
$23.95 Paper Original

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A vivid new account of one of the most decisive military encounters in history.

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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