THE MAN WHO STOPPED THE SULTAN: GABRIELE TADINO & THE DEFENCE OF EUROPE.
Code: C224
Price: £25.00
Catalogue(s): Franklin
Category(s): New Books, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
304pp., 8 colour plates. 2026. As ruler of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman governed 25 million people from Constantinople. Turning his gaze to Europe, he attacked Rhodes, the island fortress of the Knights Hospitaller but was opposed by Gabriele Tadino – an Italian genius of a military engineer. This is a fascinating history of crusading knights and gunpowder, of spies and tunnels, and of a crossroads in history.