Roger Crowley

Empires Of The Sea: The Final Battle For The Mediterranean, 1521-1580 (2008)

I read this after reading Crowley's other work City of Fortune which I found more engaging. You can see his writing style being developed slowly throughout the course of this work. His major success in these books is finding a personality or character that you can connect with throughout history....

Imperios del mar (2008)

Amazing. Although we Americans don't learn much European let alone Middle Eastern history, this book details a conflict between Christianity and Ottoman Empire that rivals WWI in numbers of dead and treasure destroyed. What a colossal waste that led to both sides leaving off due to sheer exhausti...

Morskie imperia. Batalia o panowanie na Morzu Śródziemnym 1521-1580 (2008)

It is amazing the cruelty and horror of life in the 1500s and how much we've forgotten/didn't know. This book describes battles that, for the people who fought in them, were a matter of life and death, heaven and hell, but that are all but forgotten and ultimately ended in a stalemate over and ar...

1453: The Holy War for Constantinople and the Clash of Islam and the West (2006)