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.

"It remains an extraordinary story," said Mathew Lyons in Literary Review. On 18 May 1565, an Ottoman fleet of some 200 ships carrying more than 25,000 soldiers appeared off Malta, to be joined later ...

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 ...

1565: Muslims battle Christians in the bloody Siege of Malta. The conflict between the West and Islam ended when the first U.S. Marines fought pirates along “the shores of Tripoli”? Not long ago, that ...

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, ...

Malta may be tiny, but from its 16th-century Knights of St. John to its strategically vital importance in WWII, the Mediterranean island nation is making a hugely rich heritage easy to explore. Fort ...

Malta. Not at all I what I expected. But in a good way! Malta is one of the most extraordinary places we've ever covered. Utterly unique. So much history on such a small island - from the Romans to ...