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Victory of the West: The Great Christian-Muslim Clash at the Battle of Lepanto Daphne Publications and a member of theWhen the heavily manned fleet of the Ottoman Empire met the ships of a fragile coalition of Christian European states in 1571, the waters off the coast of Greece, they say, "ran red with blood." It was a victory of the West the first major victory of Europeans against the Ottoman Empire. In this compelling piece of narrative history, Niccol Capponi describes the underlying clash of cultures and takes a fresh look at the bloody struggle between oared