The Cretan War, 1645-1671: The Venetian-Ottoman Struggle in the Mediterranean (Mugnai Bruno)(Paperback)

The Cretan War, 1645-1671: The Venetian-Ottoman Struggle in the Mediterranean (Mugnai Bruno)(Paperback)

The army and the navy of Venice and Ottoman Empire during the campaigns fought for the possession of the 'pearl of the Mediterranean'. The legendary Venetian resistance impressed the courts of whole Europe, transforming the conflict in the 'Campo di Marte' of the

War and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV: Volume 1 - The Army of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, 1660-1687 (Mugnai Bruno)(Paperback)

Prolific Italian artist and author, Bruno Mugnai introduces the Dutch Army of the third quarter of the 17th century in the first of a new 8 volume series that covers the armies of early years of Louis XIV reign. France and the United Provinces represented opposite models of state government during

Migrating Texts: Circulating Translations Around the Ottoman Mediterranean (Booth Marilyn)(Paperback)

F nelon, Offenbach and the Iliad in Arabic, Robinson Crusoe in Turkish, the Bible in Greek-alphabet Turkish, excoriated French novels circulating through the Ottoman Empire in Greek, Arabic and Turkish - literary translation at the eastern end of the Mediterranean offered worldly vistas and new,

The Desert Air War 1940-1943 (Tucker-Jones Anthony)(Paperback)

The war in air over North Africa and the Mediterranean during the Second World War has long been overshadowed by the battle on the ground. Between 1940 and 1943 Italy's Regia Aeronautica and then Germany's Luftwaffe waged a concerted aerial campaign against the British, yet apart from the bitter

Chasing the Moon - How America Beat Russia in the Space Race (Stone Robert)(Paperback / softback)

In a world divided by the ideological struggles of the Cold War, the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement, more than one-fifth of the people on the planet paused to watch the live transmission of the Apollo 11 mission. To watch as humanity took a giant leap forward. A companion

France, Britain, and the Struggle for the Revolutionary Western Mediterranean (Meeks Joshua)(Pevná vazba)

Introduction.- 1. The Western Mediterranean in the Age of Revolutions.- 2. Revolutionary Corsica, 1789-1793.- 3. Britain and the First Coalition in the Western Mediterranean, 1793.- 4. The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, 1794-1796.- 5. The French Attack on Mediterranean Neutrality, 1794-1796.- 6. The

Empires of the Sea - The Final Battle for the Mediterranean, 1521-1580 (Crowley Roger)(Paperback / softback)

Opening with the Ottoman victory in 1453 it is a breathtaking story of military crusading, Barbary pirates, white slavery and the Ottoman Empire - and the larger picture of the struggle between Islam and

The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle Between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John (Allen Bruce Ware)(Paperback)

In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by

Italian Armoured & Reconnaissance Cars 1911-45 (Cappellano Filippo)(Paperback)

The first Italian armored cars were used in the war in Libya in 1911-12 against the Ottoman Empire. With few tanks being developed during World War I, the Italians relied instead on the development of more mobile armored cars like the Ansaldo Lancia 1 Z. After the war, the army focused on the

War in Val d'Orcia - An Italian War Diary 1943-1944 (Origo Iris)(Paperback / softback)

The bestselling diaries of WWII in Tuscany, and the struggle to save the children and the rural way of

Venetian War of 1487 - ... or the War of Rovereto. (Seehase Hagen)(Paperback / softback)

Luftwaffe in Africa, 1941-1943 (Roba Jean-Louis)(Paperback)

Adolf Hitler considered the Mediterranean an unimportant theater of the war, leaving it to the troops of Benito Mussolini who wanted to dominate the 'Mare Nostro.' Nevertheless, when the Italian army was defeated on the Libyan-Egyptian border at the beginning of 1941, the F hrer was forced to help

Cold War in the Islamic World - Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy (Hiro Dilip)(Paperback / softback)

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa: Empire and Diplomacy in the Sahara and the Hijaz (Minawi Mostafa)(Paperback)

The Ottoman Scramble for Africa is the first book to tell the story of the Ottoman Empire's expansionist efforts during the age of high imperialism. Following key representatives of the sultan on their travels across Europe, Africa, and Arabia at the close of the nineteenth century, it takes the

Ottoman Endgame - War, Revolution and the Making of the Modern Middle East, 1908-1923 (McMeekin Sean)(Paperback / softback)

A single-volume history of the Ottoman empire's decade-long war for survival. Beginning with Italy's invasion of Ottoman Tripoli in September 1911, the opening salvo in what would soon spiral into a European conflict, it concludes with the establishment of Turkish independence in the Treaty of

Gallipoli: Great Battles Series (MacLeod Jenny)(Pevná vazba)

The British-led Mediterranean Expeditionary Force that attacked the Ottoman Empire at Gallipoli in 1915 was a multi-national affair, including Australian, New Zealand, Irish, French, and Indian soldiers. Ultimately a failure, the campaign ended with the withdrawal of the Allied forces after less

Wars and Soldiers in the Early Reign of Louis XIV. Volume 2: The Imperial Army, 1660-1689 (Mugnai Bruno)(Paperback)

During the 17th century, Europe experienced only four years of general peace: 1610 and 1680-82. This scenario of almost continuous strife provided the terrain for the rise of the standing professional armies. The states were eager to avoid a repetition of the chaos and destruction that had plagued

Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece (Naar Devin E.)(Paperback)

Touted as the 'Jerusalem of the Balkans,' the Mediterranean port city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) was once home to the largest Sephardic Jewish community in the world. The collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the city's incorporation into Greece in 1912 provoked a major upheaval that compelled

War in the Mediterranean, 1940-1943 (Ireland Bernard)(Paperback)

For 1,000 days the Allied and Axis armies fought for the domination of the North African shores knowing that defeat would bring disastrous consequences. Much has been written about the conduct of the land battles and the commanders who faced each other yet, as the main protagonists realised at the

Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean During the Second World War (Hammond Richard)(Pevná vazba)

This is a major reassessment of the causes of Allied victory in the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on a unique range of multinational source material, Richard Hammond demonstrates how the Allies' ability to gain control of the key routes across the sea and sink large

War, Suffering and the Struggle for Human Rights (King Peadar)(Paperback)

'It's really a horror to live in a war', Antoine Makdis told me in Aleppo. And over the next ten days we were witnesses to that horror. 'The war has aged me not just psychologically but in my way of thinking. It aged me in my body. I have pain when I walk. I have pain when I'm sleeping. I'm not

The Wars of the Roses: The Key Players in the Struggle for Supremacy (Lewis Matthew)(Paperback)

In the second half of the fifteenth century, for over thirty years, civil war tore England apart. However, its roots were deeper and its thorns were felt for longer than this time frame suggests. The Wars of the Roses were not a coherent period of continual warfare. There were distinct episodes of

Sea Change: Ottoman Textiles Between the Mediterranean and the Indian Ocean (Phillips Amanda)(Pevná vazba)

Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of society, from rural women tending silkworms to

The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1453 to 1768: The Ottoman Empire (Greene Molly)(Paperback)

An examination of the history of the Greeks in the Ottoman EmpireShortlisted for the 2015 London Hellenic PrizeThe period of Ottoman rule in Greek history has undergone a dramatic reassessment in recent years. Long reviled as four hundred years of unrelieved slavery and barbarity ('the Turkish