Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know
About The Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know Measures: 5. Greaney as, in gripping prose, he describes the struggle, primarily on Christendom's eastern borders, against the dreaded Ottoman Turks in places such as: • Manzikert, which marked the beginning of the fight, • Wallachia, where Vlad II, the real “Dracula”, carried out a personal crusade against the Turks to such good effect that his name strikes terror down to the present day
Join military historian Michael D. Though less well known than the struggle to retake Spain and Southern France, the battlefields of Armenia and Eastern and Central Europe were just as crucial to preserve Christendom. Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know offers readers richly detailed accounts of pivotal engagements—many little known in the West—in the centuries-long defense of Christendom against militant Islam. Includes 12 battle maps. The accounts of battles are enlivened and expanded with historical footnotes and introductions. Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know Measures: 5.5" x 8.5" Greaney as, in gripping prose, he describes the struggle, primarily on Christendom's eastern borders, against the dreaded Ottoman Turks in places such as: • Manzikert, which marked the beginning of the fight, • Wallachia, where Vlad II, the real “Dracula”, carried out a personal crusade against the Turks to such good effect that his name strikes terror down to the present day. • Mohács, “the Tomb of Hungary,” • Vienna (the siege of 1529), the first setback experienced by Süleymân the Magnificent, perhaps the greatest ruler the Ottoman Turks ever knew • Szigetvár (known as the “Hungarian Alamo”), • …and five others.
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