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Historical person
Don John of Austria was the illegitimate son of Charles V and a major Habsburg naval commander. He suppressed the Morisco revolt in Granada and commanded the Holy League fleet at the battle of Lepanto in 1571.
William Napier’s Clash of Empires: The Red Sea places Don John of Austria within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, empire, conquest and resistance, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. William Napier’s The Last Crusaders: Blood Red Sea places Don John of Austria within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and religion, belief and institutional authority.
Series
The Clash of Empires sequence, also republished under The Last Crusaders titles, follows English adventurers through the sixteenth-century struggle between Ottoman power and Christian Europe. The books move from the Great Siege of Malta to the naval war that culminates at Lepanto, and then into Tudor diplomacy and…
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