A Short History of Malta
Author: Brian W. Blouet
Publisher: New York : F. A. Praeger
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 268
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Author: Brian W. Blouet
Publisher: New York : F. A. Praeger
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA brief look at the history of Malta.
Author: Joseph S. Abela
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789995746216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Fortunato PANZAVECCHIA
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Published: 1849
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Seddall
Publisher: London, Chapman & Hall
Published: 1870
Total Pages: 382
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Carmel Cassar
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 312
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernle Bradford
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2014-04-01
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 1497617308
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe indispensable account of the Ottoman Empire’s Siege of Malta from the author of Hannibal and Gibraltar. In the first half of the sixteenth century, the Ottoman Empire was thought to be invincible. Suleiman the Magnificent, the Ottoman sultan, had expanded his empire from western Asia to southeastern Europe and North Africa. To secure control of the Mediterranean between these territories and launch an offensive into western Europe, Suleiman needed the small but strategically crucial island of Malta. But Suleiman’s attempt to take the island from the Holy Roman Empire’s Knights of St. John would emerge as one of the most famous and brutal military defeats in history. Forty-two years earlier, Suleiman had been victorious against the Knights of St. John when he drove them out of their island fortress at Rhodes. Believing he would repeat this victory, the sultan sent an armada to Malta. When they captured Fort St. Elmo, the Ottoman forces ruthlessly took no prisoners. The Roman grand master La Vallette responded by having his Ottoman captives beheaded. Then the battle for Malta began in earnest: no quarter asked, none given. Ernle Bradford’s compelling and thoroughly researched account of the Great Siege of Malta recalls not just an epic battle, but a clash of civilizations unlike anything since the time of Alexander the Great. It is “a superior, readable treatment of an important but little-discussed epic from the Renaissance past . . . An astonishing tale” (Kirkus Reviews).
Author: Ernie Bradford
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Published: 2011-11-17
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1848845847
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituated midway between Europe and Africa, Malta played a central role in the battles for the mastery of North Africa. The island was the vital supply base for British and Imperial troops in the to-and-fro desert campaigns against, first, Italy and then Germany and Rommels Afrika Korps. The three-year siege of Malta was one of the longest in history. In this thrilling account the author, who first came to know and love Malta whilst serving with the Royal Navy during the Second World War, paints a vivid picture of the suffering of the island and its population. He draws on personal accounts and reminiscences of the participants; he tells of the occasional despair that turned to joy when the convoys got through with much-needed supplies and of the bravery of both the civilians and the armed forces stationed there that uniquely won for Malta the George Cross. Ernle Bradford was born in Norfolk in 1922 and joined the Royal Navy at eighteen. He served with distinction throughout the Second World War. After the war he based himself in Malta, sailing the Mediterranean in a number of small boats and writing prolifically about its history. Among his other books are The Great Siege: Malta 1565, Ulysses Found, Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea, Cleopatra, Hannibal, The Shield and the Sword and Christopher Columbus. He died in 1986.
Author: Joseph Gatt Rutter
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Published: 1978
Total Pages: 144
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Published: 1804
Total Pages: 234
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