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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