Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know offers readers richly detailed accounts of pivotal engagementsâmany little known in the Westâin 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 Christendoms 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)• MohĂĄcs, ;the Tomb of Hungary;• Vienna (the siege of 1529), the first setback experienced by SĂźleymân the Magnificent, perhaps the greatest ruler the Ottoman Turks ever knew• SzigetvĂĄr (known as the ;Hungarian Alamo;)• And five others!The accounts of the 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 (if not more so) to preserve Christendom.
Includes 12 battle maps.