In the sixteenth century Muslim corsairs from North Africa terrorised Christian shipping and coasts. Hamilton Currey follows Uruj Barbarossa and his brother Kheyr-ed-Din, who rose to command the Ottoman fleet, their duels with the Genoese admiral Andrea Doria, the raid on Italy to seize Julia Gonzaga, and Charles V’s great expedition against Tunis.
Naval history told with a sailor’s eye for wind and gunfire, for lovers of pirates and the Renaissance Mediterranean. Download the free EPUB.