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Marcus Bull The Great Siege of Malta (Paperback). While since mistakenly recast as a climactic battle between the West and the East, it was also much more interestingand nuanced than that – both sides had many other interests and priorities beyond Malta. Further DetailsTitle: The Great Siege of Malta Condition: New Format: Paperback ISBN-10: 0141997753 EAN: 9780141997759 Author: Marcus Bull ISBN: 9780141997759 Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Genre: History Release Date: 01/29/2026 Description: 'An epic account … myth-busting … Bull writes with knightly brio and packs a great deal of local and global history into his authoritative book’ Pratinav Anil, The Times A major new history of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta 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 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 since mistakenly recast as a climactic battle between the West and the East, it was also much more interesting and nuanced than that – both sides had many other interests and priorities beyond Malta. Süleyman the Magnificent had conquered and subsumed regions from Hungary to the Persian Gulf; Philip II was building an empire in America and Asia.Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness stories, Marcus Bull gives a vivid sense of the period’s technologies, values and assumptions. It was a grim world built on the labour of many thousands of disposable galley-slaves, shockingly brutal forms of warfare and religious absolutism. But it was also a world filled with the most extraordinary new discoveries and ideas. Both these worlds come together in the siege and in this book. Language: English Topic: Military History Item Height: 198mm Item Length: 129mm Item Width: 35mm Item Weight: 500g Country/Region of Manufacture: GB Release Year: 2026 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
