Marcus Bull

A major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic - a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a vast, seemingly all-powerful...

A major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta. Even as the great siege began, it was understood by both sides to be an epic—a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers, and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island, and a vast, seemingly all-powerful Ottoman armada....