GREAT SIEGE OF MALTA (PB)

This superb new account of the Siege of Malta emphasises its crucial historical importance while at the same time putting it in a far wider context. Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness stories, Marcus Bull gives a vivid sense of the period’s technologies, values and assumptions. It was a grim world built on the labour of many thousands of disposable galley-slaves, shockingly brutal forms of warfare and religious absolutism. But it was also a world filled with the most extraordinary new discoveries and ideas. Both these worlds come together in the siege and in this book.