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The Siege of Malta, 1565 - Translated from the Spanish edition of 1568 (Paperback)
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The Siege of Malta, 1565 - Translated from the Spanish edition of 1568 (Paperback)
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An eyewitness account of one of the greatest-ever battles as a few
men under the Knights of St John took on a huge Turkish armada.
This is the history of one of the great battles of the world,
written by a private soldier who was an eye-witness. The siege of
Malta was a crucial moment in the long struggle between Islam and
Christendom for domination of the Mediterranean, fought out by
unequal forces on the small island which commands the sea-routes at
the centre of that sea. The Knights of St John were a survival from
the medieval world, the largest of the surviving crusading
orders,and they had been driven out of their base on Rhodes in the
eastern Mediterranean after a great onslaught by the Turks in 1522.
Now, forty-three years later, the Turkish ruler, Suleyman the
Magnificent, who had been the victor atRhodes, was determined to
finish them off. He sent out a huge armada, carrying the pick of
his army, under two commanders. Against this powerful force, the
Knights could only raise a handful of men and mercenaries, and had
to depend on the fortifications they had raised in the thirty-five
years since they first came to Malta, which bore no comparison to
the massive walls and ditches on Rhodes. Francisco Balbi di
Correggio was a humble soldier of fortune who enlisted under the
charismatic command of the Grand Master of the Order, Jean de la
Valette. The extraordinary drama that unfolded after the first
appearance of the Turkish fleet in the summer of 1565 is told in
his own words, giving equal credit to the courage and leadership of
the Knights and the grim determination of the ordinary people of
Malta.
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