Empire and Holy War in the Mediterranean: The Galley and Maritime Conflict Between the Habsburgs and Ottomans

by Phillip Williams and Williams Phillip

In the century after 1530 the Habsburgs of Spain and the Ottoman Turks fought a maritime war that seemed destined to lead nowhere. Lasting peace was as unlikely as final triumph, in part because the principal beneficiaries of the fighting were pirates or 'corsairs' based in ports such as Malta and Algiers. It was also a war of unequal means, since the Habsburgs had too few good warships and the Ottomans too many bad ones. Phillip Williams here provides...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1784533750
• ISBN13: 9781784533755
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.4"