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Four hundred years ago, Turkey's navy ruled the Mediterranean with galleys commanded by a pirate of unmatched brilliance - in love as well as war. Islam and Christianity in an historic struggle.

This book chronicles the life of Barbarosa (Kheir-ed-din), a 16th Century Corsair who rose from an obscure birth to supreme Admiral of the Ottoman Navy. He was also a great linguist, a marine architecht of note, the supreme master of Galley warfare and a warrior of exceptional courage who survived 40 years of sea battles to die in bed with a beautiful, young wife at his side. His story also serves as a canvas on which to paint one of history's great, but too little known empires in its heyday, and to bring alive an exciting chapter of the age-old war between Islam and Christianity.
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