Product Highlights
Crescent Dawn: The Rise of the Ottoman Empire and the Making of the Modern Age, by historian Si Sheppard, from Osprey Publishing's General Military line (ISBN 9781472851468), is a history of the wars of Ottoman expansion across the Balkans, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, Persia and Russia.
Features
- 528 pages
- 16 pages of color illustrations
- Hardcover, 10" x 7"
About the book
The book argues that resistance to Ottoman expansion did not fall neatly along a Christian-Muslim divide, noting the alliance between France's King Francis I and Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and the resistance of Morocco's Saadi dynasty to Ottoman encroachment, and frames the eventual containment of Ottoman power by 1571 as a turning point that shaped the course of Europe. It features figures including Mehmed the Conqueror, Suleiman the Magnificent, Charles V and Vasco da Gama.
