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Historical person
1913–1994
Selim II was the Ottoman sultan who succeeded Suleiman the Magnificent. His reign included the conquest of Cyprus, the naval defeat at Lepanto and continued reliance on powerful ministers and commanders to manage imperial affairs.
William Napier’s Clash of Empires: The Red Sea places Selim II within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, empire, conquest and resistance, and social change and the pressures of ordinary life. William Napier’s The Last Crusaders: Blood Red Sea places Selim II within a narrative shaped by military command and battlefield decision-making, social change and the pressures of ordinary life, and religion, belief and institutional authority. Other novels featuring Selim II include William Napier’s The Last Crusaders: Ivan the Terrible.
Series
The Clash of Empires sequence, also republished under The Last Crusaders titles, follows English adventurers through the sixteenth-century struggle between Ottoman power and Christian Europe. The books move from the Great Siege of Malta to the naval war that culminates at Lepanto, and then into Tudor diplomacy and…
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