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Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World (Hardcover)

by Roger Crowley (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 368 pages
  • Publisher: Random House (Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1400066247
  • ISBN-13: 978-1400066247
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.2 x 5 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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4.0 out of 5 stars Empires of the Sea, 4 Dec 2008
By Caroline Stuart Jervis "History Buff" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews
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Read a review in the Wall St. Journal which wetted my appetite. Being a history buff it intrigued me. The book was an excellent read, covering the Seige of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto and the Contest for the Center of the World in the sixteenth century. The constant battle for supremacy in the Christian/Muslim world with it's shattering disregard for human life. After it was all over little had really changed and that state of affairs continues to this day. Magnificent descriptions of battles, especially the sea battle at Lepanto which is described as "Europe's Trafalgar" during which 40,000 were killed in four hours and really ended the crusades of the time.
There is a lot to relate to in today's world.
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1.0 out of 5 stars A disappointing buy, 16 Feb 2009
By Charles Crowhurst (Varese, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Empires of the Sea: The Siege of Malta, the Battle of Lepanto, and the Contest for the Center of the World (Audio CD)
Not so much the content as the reading, which I thought was poor. This would be much better simply in print. As it was, I found the recording jarring, read in a sort of mid-Atlantic accent. Maybe only consummate actors should be used for this type of work.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Empires of the Sea, 11 Jan 2009
By Mr. A. Walker-powell "Tony Powell" (Sydney NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This is a splendid book for the general reader. In about 300 pages Crowley describes the Christian/Muslim 16th Century conflict in the Mediterranean. The end of that century also marks the end of the supremacy of the Mediterranean in the West, which until then had been the centre of Western Civilization. Crowley creates a picture in words as the reader is transported, Google-Earthlike, from Philip II sitting like a spider in the centre of a web directing the business of the Spanish Empire to Suleiman flamboyantly extending the Ottoman Empire. The description of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571 is so vivid that I felt I was an observer standing on the poop of Don John's flagship. It seems to have had a similar effect on Roger Crowley because he wrote that Lepanto was the biggest battle in the West until Loos in 1916 (sic). Loos was fought in 1915 and I believe the battle of Tannenburg between Russia and Germany in 1914 was considerably bigger. More relevant is the fact that in terms of men and ships Lepanto was not surpassed until the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War 2.
Today's technology enables the reader to use Google Earth to see the battle sights. Forts St Elmo and St Angelo in Malta can be viewed looking as I imagine they were 500 years ago. The reader can see the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth the same as when Don John of Austria saw it before Lepanto.
The only material concern that Crowley did not discuss was the question of hygiene in the Siege of Malta. Until the Boer War, army losses due to sickness and wounds were greater than those killed in action. The Knights of St John as part of their hospitaller remit cared for the sick. I understand that they minimized sickness in their galleys by transferring the slaves to cells in Fort St Angelo when the boats returned from operational duty and temporarily lowering the boats to the bottom of the harbour so that they could be freed of the slaves' excrement and other accumulated filth. I understand that sickness among the besieging Ottoman forces was a major concern. I would be surprised if sickness was a similar problem in the Knight's forces.
Although the events happened up to 500 years ago the conflict is topical: players and locations are different, but the struggle between the West and militant Islam goes on. One could substitute George Bush and the United States for Charles V and Spain, for example. Although there are examples of chivalrous behaviour between opposing commanders of the like of Don John of Austria and the Ottoman fleet's commander, Ali Pasha, the behaviour of Lala Mustapha, the Ottoman commander before Famagusta was of unspeakable brutality. His action of having the surrendering Venetian commander Marcantonio Bragadin, skinned alive whilst under the protection of a truce is so horrific that it continues to poison relations between Turkey and the West, to this day..
Empires of the Sea is well worth having. What splendid movies that include the Siege of Malta or the Battle of Lepanto could be made!
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