THE GREAT SIEGE OF MALTA.
Code: C226
Price: £14.99
Catalogue(s): Franklin
Category(s): New Books, Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century,
352pp., P.B. 2026 reissue. 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.