Imperios del mar

In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent conquered the island of Rhodes, the Christian stronghold where the last Crusaders, the Knights Hospitallers, resided. But the fall of Rhodes set in motion a chain of events that led to an all-out war in the Mediterranean between Christian Europe, led by Spain, and the Muslim world. Crowley masterfully describes the tough confrontations between the two sides, the tricks and tricks of popes, kings and sultans to tip the balance on his side, as well as the majestic palaces in which decisions were made. In the battles, narrated with the pulse of a novelist, the reader will be able to smell the gunpowder and feel the mud of the trenches or the creak of the frames of a galley when breaking. The siege of Malta or the Battle of Lepanto come to life on these pages like never before. Emperors like Carlos V, Felipe II or Suleiman the Magnificent, legendary pirates like Barbarroja and generals like the Doria, Don Juan de Austria or Álvaro de Bazán star in this epic war in which Europe stopped the Islamic advance and set religious borders that, with little change, they have been maintained to this day.