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Author : Eugène Sue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Commander of Malta written by Eugène Sue and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497617308
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book The Great Siege, Malta 1565 written by Ernle Bradford and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 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 : Francesco Balbi
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843831402
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (314 download)
Download or read book The Siege of Malta, 1565 written by Francesco Balbi and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of one of the greatest-ever battles, a few men under the Knights of St John against a huge Turkish armada, written as witnessed by a participating soldier"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Barry Hough
Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1906924120
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)
Download or read book Coleridge's Laws written by Barry Hough and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Taylor Coleridge is best known as a great poet and literary theorist, but for one, quite short, period of his life he held real political power - acting as Public Secretary to the British Civil Commissioner in Malta in 1805. This was a formative experience for Coleridge which he later identified as being one of the most instructive in his entire life. In this volume Barry Hough and Howard Davis show how Coleridge's actions whilst in a position of power differ markedly from the idealism he had advocated before taking office - shedding new light on Coleridge's sense of political and legal morality.
Author : Patrick O'Brian
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393037098
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Treason's Harbour written by Patrick O'Brian and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The finest writer of sea-stories in the English language."--J. de Courcy Ireland
Author : Roger Crowley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588367339
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Empires of the Sea written by Roger Crowley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1521, Suleiman the Magnificent, Muslim ruler of the Ottoman Empire at the height of its power, dispatched an invasion fleet to the Christian island of Rhodes. This would prove to be the opening shot in an epic struggle between rival empires and faiths for control of the Mediterranean and the center of the world. In Empires of the Sea, acclaimed historian Roger Crowley has written his most mesmerizing work to date–a thrilling account of this brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe, a fast-paced tale of spiraling intensity that ranges from Istanbul to the Gates of Gibraltar and features a cast of extraordinary characters: Barbarossa, “The King of Evil,” the pirate who terrified Europe; the risk-taking Emperor Charles V; the Knights of St. John, the last crusading order after the passing of the Templars; the messianic Pope Pius V; and the brilliant Christian admiral Don Juan of Austria. This struggle’s brutal climax came between 1565 and 1571, seven years that witnessed a fight to the finish decided in a series of bloody set pieces: the epic siege of Malta, in which a tiny band of Christian defenders defied the might of the Ottoman army; the savage battle for Cyprus; and the apocalyptic last-ditch defense of southern Europe at Lepanto–one of the single most shocking days in world history. At the close of this cataclysmic naval encounter, the carnage was so great that the victors could barely sail away “because of the countless corpses floating in the sea.” Lepanto fixed the frontiers of the Mediterranean world that we know today. Roger Crowley conjures up a wild cast of pirates, crusaders, and religious warriors struggling for supremacy and survival in a tale of slavery and galley warfare, desperate bravery and utter brutality, technology and Inca gold. Empires of the Sea is page-turning narrative history at its best–a story of extraordinary color and incident, rich in detail, full of surprises, and backed by a wealth of eyewitness accounts. It provides a crucial context for our own clash of civilizations.
Author : Desmond Gregory
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838635902
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (359 download)
Download or read book Malta, Britain, and the European Powers, 1793-1815 written by Desmond Gregory and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes how the island of Malta became a protectorate of the British Crown during the wars against Napoleon after the failures of the Knights of Saint John, republican France, the Two Sicilies, and finally imperial Russia to fill the role of its best defender. Author Desmond Gregory also explains why most, though not all, Maltese people welcomed the protection of Britain, the supreme naval power in the Mediterranean after the battle of Aboukir Bay.
Author : James Holland
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 1780225970
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (82 download)
Download or read book Fortress Malta written by James Holland and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-01-31 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the whole of Britain during the first year of the Blitz. Malta had become one of the most strategically important places in the world. From there, the Allies could attack Axis supply lines to North Africa; without it, Rommel would be able to march unchecked into Egypt, Suez and the Middle East. For the Allies this would have been catastrophic. As Churchill said, Malta had to be held 'at all costs'. FORTRESS MALTA follows the story through the eyes of those who were there: young men such as twenty-year-old fighter pilot Raoul Daddo-Langlois, anti-aircraft gunner Ken Griffiths, American Art Roscoe and submariner Tubby Crawford - who served on the most successful Allied submarine of the Second World War; cabaret dancer-turned RAF plotter Christina Ratcliffe, and her lover, the brilliant and irrepressible reconnaissance pilot, Adrian Warburton. Their stories and others provide extraordinary first-hand accounts of heroism, resilience, love, and loss, highlighting one of the most remarkable stories of World War II.
Author : Vincent P. O'Hara
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253006031
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book In Passage Perilous written by Vincent P. O'Hara and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-05 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys from Gibraltar and Egypt toward Malta. In a complex battle lasting more than a week, Italian and German forces defeated Operation Vigorous, the larger eastern effort, and ravaged the western convoy, Operation Harpoon, in a series of air, submarine, and surface attacks culminating in the Battle of Pantelleria. Just two of seventeen merchant ships that set out for Malta reached their destination. In Passage Perilous presents a detailed description of the operations and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to Rommel's army in North Africa. The book's discussion of the battle's operational aspects highlights the complex relationships between air and naval power and the influence of geography on littoral operations.
Author : Denis Barnham
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1909808687
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (98 download)
Download or read book Malta Spitfire Pilot written by Denis Barnham and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An RAF fighter pilot’s “intensely vivid” account of the siege of Malta in World War II (The Times Literary Supplement). In the summer of 1942, Malta was vulnerable to air attack from the Germans and Italians, and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns. Denis Barnham, a young and inexperienced flight lieutenant, spent ten hectic weeks on this indomitable island; he left a well-ordered English aerodrome for the chaos and disillusionment of Luqa. His task was to engage the overwhelming number of enemy bombers, usually protected by fighter escorts, and shoot down as many as possible. The Spitfires were bomb-scarred and battered. Oftentimes they could only get two or three in the air together, and the airfields were riddled with bomb craters, but they managed to keep going and make their mark on enemy operations. Barnham has written a powerful account of his experiences in Malta, starting with his trip in an American aircraft carrier through the ceaseless battle and turmoil during the desperate defense of the island, through his departure by air back to England, having seen the reinforcements safely landed and the tide of battle turning. With thrilling and terrifying descriptions and illustrations of the air action, this account, told with humor and compassion, is one of the best firsthand accounts of aerial combat ever written.
Author : H. J. A. Sire
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300068856
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (688 download)
Download or read book The Knights of Malta written by H. J. A. Sire and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a complete history of the Order of St John or Knights of Malta. Founded as a hospice for pilgrims in Jerusalem in the 11th Century, the Order has in succeeding centuries played an important military, religious and political role in the history of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Author : Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 654 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Ancient and modern Malta, as also, the history of the knights of St. John of Jerusalem written by Pierre Marie Louis de Boisgelin de Kerdu and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Natalino Fenech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Fatal Flight written by Natalino Fenech and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Hardman (of Valetta.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 728 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A History of Malta During the Period of the French and British Occupations, 1798-1815 written by William Hardman (of Valetta.) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of English and foreign documents referring to events in the history of Malta...during the years from 1792 to 1815.
Author : Great Britain. Colonial Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book Malta written by Great Britain. Colonial Office and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pierre Marie Louis “de” Boisgelin de Kerdu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.+/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Ancient and Modern Malta Containing a Description of Malta and Goza ... the History of the Knights of St. John of Jerusalem (etc.) written by Pierre Marie Louis “de” Boisgelin de Kerdu and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
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Download or read book The History of the Knights of Malta. By Mons. L'abbé de Vertot. Illustrated with 71 Heads of the Grand Masters, &c. Engraved by the Best Hands in France, from the Original Paintings, Under the Inspection of Mons. Bologne ... With Maps by Mons. de Lille, and the Plans and Fortifications of Malta by the Chevalier de Tigné. And a Compleat Index to the Whole. In Two Volumes written by and published by . This book was released on 1728 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
