Michael D. Greaney
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. Join military historian Michael D. 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 against the Turks,
·
Wallachia,
where Vlad III, 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, leading up to Lepanto, the subject of G.K. Chesterton's famous epic poem.
The accounts of battles are
enlivened and expanded with historical footnotes and introductions. 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. Includes 12 battle maps.
266 pp. $27.95 (U.S.) £17.26
(U.K.)
ISBN: 978-1505110203
(Also available on Kindle)
