Description: Great Siege of Malta : The Epic Battle Between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John, Paperback by Allen, Bruce Ware, ISBN 1512601160, ISBN-13 9781512601169, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a Muslim invasion of Sicily, southern Italy, and beyond. The siege force of Turks, Arabs, and Barbary corsairs from across the Muslim world outnumbered the defenders of Malta many times over, and its arrival began a long hot summer of bloody combat, often hand to hand, embroiling knights and mercenaries, civilians and slaves, in a desperate struggle for this pivotal point in the Mediterranean. Bruce Ware Allen's The Great Siege of Malta describes the siege’s geopolitical context, explains its strategies and tactics, and reveals how the all-too-human personalities of both Muslim and Christian leaders shaped the course of events. The siege of Malta was the Ottoman empire’s high-water mark in the war between the Christian West and the Muslim East for control of the Mediterranean. Drawing on copious research and new source material, Allen stirringly recreates the two factions’ heroism and chivalry, while simultaneously tracing the barbarism, severity, and indifference to suffering of sixteenth-century warfare. The Great Siege of Malta is a fresh, vivid retelling of one of the most famous battles of the early modern world—a battle whose echoes are still felt today.
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Book Title: Great Siege of Malta : the Epic Battle between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of New England
Topic: Modern / 16th Century, Middle East / Turkey & Ottoman Empire, Military / General, Europe / Medieval
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2017
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: History
Item Weight: 17 Oz
Item Length: 9.1 in
Author: Bruce Ware Allen
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
