On The Great Siege of Malta, by Marcus Bull. Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North ...
Crowley (1453), an independent scholar of the 16th-century Mediterranean, focuses here on the final contest between Christian and Muslim, Hapsburg and Ottoman, for control of the Middle Sea.
Clashing civilizations, rival great powers, cutting-edge technology: we have been here before, as Marcus Bull, a professor at the University of North Carolina, shows in The Great Siege of Malta, his ...
The only fort that failed to hold its ground against the Turkish besiegers in the Great Siege of 1565 was Fort St Elmo. Although the fort held out stubbornly for nearly a month before it was overrun, ...