GREAT SIEGE OF MALTA (HB)

A major new account of the epic siege of the island fortress of Malta. While it is often categorized as a climactic battle between the West and the East, 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.