Lepanto : Cuando España salvó a Europa

Marcelo Gullo returns with a courageous book that vindicates the famous and epic naval Battle of Lepanto as the landmark event that saved Europe from Islamization. On October 7, 1571, one of the most important clashes between Muslims and Christians in history took place. On that day, the sea ran red: eight thousand Christians and more than thirty thousand Muslims died, but the Catholic coalition, formed by Spain, Venice, and the Papal States, managed to defeat the all-powerful Ottoman Empire. Spain acted as a bulwark against Muslim expansion in the world, and this is the new perspective from which Marcelo Gullo begins to explain the consequences it had on the development of Western culture and Europe, highlighting, once again, the importance of the Spanish Empire. But the author not only narrates the epic tale of Lepanto, but also journeys into the past to return to the present with a better set of explanatory hypotheses with which to approach the future. His conclusion is that the Old Continent is currently suffering a silent invasion by the same power that Spain stopped at Covadonga and Lepanto, and that if the "clash of civilizations" was the slogan invented by Samuel Huntington, at the request of the CIA, to justify the actions of American imperialism in the Middle East, it is no less true that the religious and political leaders of the Islamic world have never stopped dreaming of turning St. Peter's Basilica into the largest mosque in Islam.