The blood-red crescent
Subtitle: a novel
By: Henry Garnett.
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Manchester, N.H
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9781933184333
Subjects: Coming of age -- Fiction; Christianity -- History -- Fiction; Islam -- History -- Fiction; War -- Fiction; Lepanto, Battle of, Greece, 1571 -- Fiction; Family life -- Italy -- Fiction; Italy -- History -- 1559-1789 -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In 1570, as Christians throughout Europe unite in a Holy League to defeat Turkish invaders, fourteen-year-old Guido of Venice, Italy, leaves the safety of a monastery to serve on a ship his wealthy father has contributed and fights in the Battle of Lepanto.