The Great Siege of Malta / Marcus Bull.

Bull, Marcus Graham, author

London : Allen Lane, 2025.

xiii, 323 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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. With three quarters of the Mediterranean's coasts already in the hands of the Sultan and his allies, all eyes were now on Malta. This account of the siege emphasises the crucial importance of the siege while at the same time putting it in a far wider context.

9780241523650 (hbk)

945.8502

DG992.6

945.8502

English

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