The Great Siege of Malta av Marcus Bull

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<p>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.<br><br>This superb new account of the siege emphasises the crucial importance of the siege while at the same time putting it in a far wider context. While seen as a climactic battle between the West and the East, it was also much more nuanced than that ¿ both sides had many other interests and priorities beyond Malta. Suleiman the Magnificent had conquered and subsumed regions from Hungary to the Persian Gulf; Philip II was building an empire in America and Asia.<br><br>Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness stories, Marcus Bull gives a vivid sense of th