
The indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar.In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between these territories and la...
Paperback: 260 pages
Publisher: Open Road Media (August 19, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1497637864
ISBN-13: 978-1497637863
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 176792
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Ernle Bradford has given us a very good account of the Siege of Malta in 1565 - the last stand of the Knights Hospitallers. I know, it wasn't their last action, but was certainly the high point and they would continue to fade away as the one of the l...
ensive into western Europe, Suleiman needed the small but strategically crucial island of Malta. But Suleiman’s attempt to take the island from the Holy Roman Empire’s Knights of St. John would emerge as one of the most famous and brutal military defeats in history.Forty-two years earlier, Suleiman had been victorious against the Knights of St. John when he drove them out of their island fortress at Rhodes. Believing he would repeat this victory, the sultan sent an armada to Malta. When they captured Fort St. Elmo, the Ottoman forces ruthlessly took no prisoners. The Roman grand master La Vallette responded by having his Ottoman captives beheaded. Then the battle for Malta began in earnest: no quarter asked, none given.Ernle Bradford’s compelling and thoroughly researched account of the Great Siege of Malta recalls not just an epic battle, but a clash of civilizations unlike anything since the time of Alexander the Great. It is “a superior, readable treatment of an important but little-discussed epic from the Renaissance past . . . An astonishing tale” (Kirkus Reviews).