The Sword of Islam Kindle Edition

Sabatini ought to be taught in English classes. The man could write and turn a phrase like few others. His stories are almost all swash and buckle; so if you don't like that genre, you need not apply. That said, it's some of the best, and most accurate, historical fiction you will ever read.

This isn't a book. It is a snippet of a book. Amazon has misrepresented it's product and the individual responsible should be held accountable for misrepresenting a fine author. This certainly is yet more proof that Amazon fails to exercise quality control.

An easy to read tale, the only problem being that the story is only 30 pages long so the plot lacked the twists, turns and intrigues of his better-known full-length works. I wanted more, however, the style and flow did not disappoint. It was pure Sabatini.

The Kindle book is incomplete, only a single chapter or two from the original. If you buy it, you are being ripped off.

A simple and predictable plot. Story is exactly the same as In Destiny's Clutch. Not sure that the title well matches the story which ends just as it gets interesting.

Wrong title

When i bought this book it was shown as having over 300 pages. I was disappointed to find when i bought it that there were only a few pages and it is now shown on the amazon website as being 30 pages. I enjoyed the few pages and wish it was a full book.

If you'd like to read Rafael Sabatini's Sword of Islam, be sure to get a hardcover or paperback edition of this classic January 1939 novel, one of Sabatini's best, in my opinion.The full volume is available for free on the Internet Archive, but also from many public libraries. The most recent edition appears to have been published in paperback in 2001.There is, however, a Sabatini short story of the same name published in Premiere Magazine in August 1914. Amazon perhaps has posted the short story in its Kindle offerings, rather than the novel. (The 7-chapter story is also available on the internet on a website on the Life and work of Rafael Sabatini.) I'd guess the story served as the skeleton of the novel that came 25 years later, virtually at the end of Sabatini's writing career.The lateness of this work in Sabatini's lifetime oeuvre explains is superb quality. It is not to be missed, particularly if you like sea stories.Set in the early 16th century, during the full fledged onslaught of the Barbary Pirates on the Mediterranean and its Christian communities, the full-length classic novel fills out the historical figure of Dragut Reis (1485-1565), an Ottoman captain and the sometime governor of of Djerba, who terrorized the Mediterranean and became known as the Sword of Islam.He enslaved thousands of Christians, Jews and others in his seaborne rampages, although for four years he was imprisoned after being captured by Giannettino Doria, the nephew of Andrea Doria, another historical figure and a central character in this novel, in which his nephew also takes a role.Sabatini apparently took the name for the protagonist of this work, Prospero Adorno, from the 34th Doge of Genoa, during the 15th century, roughly 100 years before the events described in this book. (There was evidently no Prospero Adonro during Doria's time.)The story begins in roughly 1527, as Andrea Doria serves as the Admiral of the King of France.Eventually Doria, and Adorno both, end up in the service of Charles the V of Spain.This is a most ingenious story, which pits Doria and Adorno and their families against one another, and also weaves into the tale both the gruesome and heroic deeds of the period.Once again, Sabatini demonstrates a stellar skill with his pen, and a first class knowledge of history, as well as the enviable ability to entwine into his stories genuine historical events and figures with purely fictional characters and human needs, wants, and aspirations.A marvelous read, which I completed in one day. I wish it had never ended.

excellent paperback, delivered promptly

Well written but a bit on the short side!Never the less, it was a trip down memory lane havingread the book many, many, years ago.