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Empires of the Sea

Roger Crowley
Faber & Faber, 341pp

Empires of the Sea: The final battle for the MediterraneanIn these days of Al-Qaida, it is heartening to read a story that shows not only that jihad is nothing new but how the west was saved from Islamic conquest by its defeat. In 1521 Sultan Suleiman wrote to the Knights of St John in Rhodes, boasting of Ottoman ...

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