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Book review: Empires of the Sea – The Final Battle for the Mediterranean

2 January 2010 ,
Roger Crowley’s book is an account of the naval battles for control of the Mediterranean during the sixteenth century. Predominantly a conflict between the Muslim Ottoman empire and the Christian Spanish empire, the fighting saw many others sucked in – and many people of each religion fighting on the ‘wrong’ side – but that does [...]