Customer Reviews
Superb - By: A. Serrano, 15 Aug 2008 
This is a very well researched & written history book about the battle of Lepanto, with a broad introduction of the historical brackground & a magnificent description of the gallleis & weaponery involved.
It will make an excellent holiday book .It is well illustrated with accurate maps & prints.
This is the best account of the battle I have read.
5 stars
An outstanding book on the subject, at last. - By: Sigismondo Alberghetti, 13 Aug 2006 After so many works of inadequate quality, we have at last an excellent piece of scholarship on the event that in the XVI century saved Europe from Islam. For the first time in more than a century, Niccolò Capponi has written a book based on painstaking archival research & a thorough exam of printed sources. Thus he has managed to correct a number of incorrect statements about the battle, that almost alll modern authors repeat in parrot fashion. The fundamental role played by superior Western technology, already suggested by Fernand Braudel, is here explored in depth & ample credit is given to the decisive, devastating, effect of Christian artillery.
Although of high scholarly quality the book is enjoyable to read, & destined to remain a milestone amongst the many, & to often useless, publications about one of the most important victories of the West.
