Victor Davis Hanson

The Enemy at the Gate: Hapsburgs, Ottomans, and the Battle for Europe by Andrew Wheatcroft Basic, 368 pages, $27.50 We usually associate the struggles for control of the southern European and Mediterranean worlds with the horrific encounters of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries—the final . . . . Continue Reading »

The Victory of the West:The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepantoby Niccolò CapponiPerseus, 412 pages, $27.50 The Sermon on the Mount is a long way from the Qur’an, but the Christian soldiers of the sixteenth century knew well enough that weakness in the face of the Ottoman . . . . Continue Reading »