The Catholic Book Club discussion

2. In June of 2020 the group read The Last Crusader which covered Lepanto in more depth. How many of the other battles in Ten Battles Every Catholic Should Know have your heard about or read about prior to reading this book?

I knew about eight of the ten battles in this book. Those I hadn't read about are the first and the last in this book: Manzikert and Khotin.

I know Manzikert because i am a lover of Byzantium. Without Manzikert the Byzantian Empire would have not be forced to beg assistance to the latin christians. There is a novel unfortunatelly was not translated to English even into spanish is almost impossible to get it. "Borned of the purple" by the Hungarian writer Laszlo Passuth the life of the Emperor Manuel I Comneno. The last big moment of Byzantium. Currently is my favorite novel of this year.

Lovers of G.K. Chesterton’s poetry know his masterpiece, “Lepanto,” and its thrilling lines: “Don John of Austria/Has set his people free!”

I had read how Vlad the Impaler discouraged Muslim armies from attempting to invade his country.

The own Vlad was a hostage of the turkish and it is possible that his cruel abalities he learnt to the turkish of Mehmet II. I would like recommend one of my favorite novels "The Dark Angel" by Mika Waltari which tells the fallen of Byzantium by the Turkish. Thanks to the Lord Mehmet could not conquer Rhodas although it was got by Soliman.

I was aware of most of the battles. But Have done several Church History courses as part of my Religious Studies and Theology Degree.

Steven R. wrote: "I was aware of most of the battles. But Have done several Church History courses as part of my Religious Studies and Theology Degree."

I suppose some of the battles mentioned in this book should go deeper.

Fonch wrote: "Steven R. wrote: "I was aware of most of the battles. But Have done several Church History courses as part of my Religious Studies and Theology Degree."

I suppose some of the battles mentioned in ..."

They could all have gone much deeper; many books have been written about each of them, and I was limited to at most two chapters each. We conceived it as an introduction, not a comprehensive treatment. Much more is in the bibliography.

Michael wrote: "Fonch wrote: "Steven R. wrote: "I was aware of most of the battles. But Have done several Church History courses as part of my Religious Studies and Theology Degree."

I suppose some of the battles..."

Because I live in another country I do not have the fortune to have the book, and so I asked about it. But from the reviews, which I have read to my friend Steven R. McEvoy I think it is a very good book

Fonch wrote: "Michael wrote: "Fonch wrote: "Steven R. wrote: "I was aware of most of the battles. But Have done several Church History courses as part of my Religious Studies and Theology Degree."

I suppose som..."

Trust me. It's the greatest book you'll ever read until the next one . . .

Michael wrote: "Fonch wrote: "Michael wrote: "Fonch wrote: "Steven R. wrote: "I was aware of most of the battles. But Have done several Church History courses as part of my Religious Studies and Theology Degree."
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Well this year I'm already telling Professor Manuel Alfonseca. I'm reading very good nonfiction books. Like "Once upon a time Gospel in the stories" by Diego Blanco Albarova https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5... or "I'm going to tell you your story" by José Javier Esparza (it is a history of Spain that goes from Atapuerca year 900000 b.c. to the government of our current president) https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1.... I will also read "Martyrs of Japan" by Santiago Mata https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... and soon I will read "Right to Dream" by my admired, and dearest Don Juan Manuel de Prada https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1... . It's going to cost you more than you think your book is the best, since the competition is very tough ;-). PD. It is also that at this moment I am not very good money. I had to leave my mother 410 euros. I'm going to have to stop buying books for a while :-(.

STOP BUYING BOOKS??? WHAT KIND OF MANIAC ARE YOU????

Have you tried abebooks.com? Specify where you want the booksellers to be in the advanced search unless you're looking for a special book anywhere in the world. I found the only copy available of a very rare book in Japan once.

Michael wrote: "STOP BUYING BOOKS??? WHAT KIND OF MANIAC ARE YOU????

Have you tried abebooks.com? Specify where you want the booksellers to be in the advanced search unless you're looking for a special book anywh..."
I admit that I am a bit manic, but I am running out of space, although today I bought a few Cervantes, and I will smuggle them into the house.

It's funny Japan is my favorite subject I took a long time wanting to read some works of Shusaku Endo that I lack, and I would like to have the novels of Ayako Sono translated into Spanish (the latter will be difficult due to the conservatism of Sono Spain has become too progressive a country for my taste. The Italian writer Constanza Miriano was attacked from the Spanish media only for the title of a book :-(), and Kaga Otohiko. I would also like to own the novels of "The Bells of Nagasaki" by Takashi Nagai. There is a publishing house, which publishes very good Japanese novels called Quaterni (although it is also becoming too progressive for my taste).

My co-author's mother is from Japan AND the U.S. (it's complicated); her mother was Japanese American interned in World War II so went back to Japan and then returned to the U.S.

Michael wrote: "My co-author's mother is from Japan AND the U.S. (it's complicated); her mother was Japanese American interned in World War II so went back to Japan and then returned to the U.S."

I do know the matter of the internment of Japanese-American citizens in America. I read "Snow Falling on Cedars" by David Gutterson, and I heard Danielle Steele write about it. Michael Thomas Cibenko's "Masaru" was discussed here about the Battle of Shimabara, and I am an absolute fan of Japanese literature, and Shusaku Endo in particular. I recently finished reading a book about martyrs in Japan by Santiago Mata.