01947nam a22002057a 4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001800102041000900120050001400129100001900143245013200162260005500294300004700349505057900396520076600975BJBSDDR20260511123623.0ta260511s2008    nyu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9781400066247  a1400066247  bspa cBJBSDDR  aeng   bC953 20081 aCrowley, Roger10aEmpires of the sea : bthe siege of Malta, the battle of Lepanto, and the contest for the center of the world / cRoger Crowley  aNew York : bRandom House Trade Paperbacks, c2008  axvii, 336 pages : billustrations ;c20 cm  aPtolemy's map
Map: The Mediterranean, c. 1560
Map: The Siege of Malta
Map: The Battle of Lepanto
I. CAESARS: THE CONTEST FOR THE SEA. The Sultan pays a visit
A supplication
The king of evil
The voyage to Tunis
Doria and Barbarossa
The Turkish Sea
II. EPICENTER: THE BATTLE FOR MALTA. Nest of vipers
Invasion fleet
The post of death
The Ravelin of Europe
The last swimmers
Payback
Trench wars
"Malta York"
III. ENDGAME: HURTLING TO LEPANTO. The pope's dream
A head in a dish
Famagusta
Christ's general
Snakes to a charm
"Let's fight"
Sea of fire
Other oceans
Epilogue: Traces  aA thrilling account of the brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe. This struggle's brutal climax came between 1565 and 1571, seven years that witnessed a fight to the finish decided in a series of bloody set pieces: the epic siege of Malta, in which a tiny band of Christian defenders defied the might of the Ottoman army; the savage battle for Cyprus; and the apocalyptic last-ditch defense of southern Europe at Lepanto--one of the single most shocking days in world history. At the close of this cataclysmic naval encounter, the carnage was so great that the victors could barely sail away because of the countless corpses floating in the sea. Lepanto fixed the frontiers of the Mediterranean world that we know today