Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosit
In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the “Golden Apple,” as Turks referred to Vienna. The ensuing siege pitted battle-hardened Janissaries wiel
An account of the cultural animosity between western Christians and Islam covers such conflicts as the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the crusades in the Middle East, and the ongoing clashes in the Balkan
In this reprint from 2009, Wheatcroft (international publishing and communication, U. of Stirling, UK) examines the Holy War fought for two and a half centuries by the Christian Habsburgs from Vienna
Who's Who in Military History looks at those people who have shaped the course of war. Broad in geographical and chronological scope, it concentrates on all the periods and conflicts about which the r
