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The Course Of Fortune A Novel Of The Great Siege Of Malta Hc
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Author : Tony Rothman
language : en
Publisher: ibooks
Release Date : 2015-07-19
The Course Of Fortune A Novel Of The Great Siege Of Malta Hc written by Tony Rothman and has been published by ibooks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-19 with Fiction categories.
In three volumes, The Course of Fortune —A Novel of the Great Siege of Malta, follows the adventures of a young Spanish soldier-of-fortune Francisco de Barai over the course of fifteen of the most turbulent years in the most turbulent century in history, adventures that climax in the Great Siege of Malta of 1565. During that most momentous of all sieges, tens of thousands of Turks descend on the island, defended by some 600 Knights of Malta and another few thousand mercenaries and Maltese civilians. The horrific and heroic events are recounted with the utmost attention to historical accuracy, just as the entire escalating chain of events is played out against a finely researched tapestry of Renaissance values, superstitions and culture. Tony Rothman is a physicist and writer. He received a B.A. in physics from Swarthmore College in 1975, and a Ph.D. from the Center for Relativity at the University of Texas, Austin in 1981. After leaving Texas, he did post-doctoral work at Oxford, Moscow and Cape Town. Rothman’s scientific research has been in cosmology, the study of the early universe, and he has authored approximately sixty scientific papers on that subject. He has taught physics at Princeton, Harvard and elsewhere. Apart from his scientific work, Rothman is the author of eleven books, both fiction and nonfiction. The most recent is Firebird, a scientific suspense novel concerning a race for nuclear fusion (Wildside Press, 2015). He has also authored seven plays, contributes to a number of national magazines, including Scientific American and Discover, and has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
The Course Of Fortune A Novel Of The Great Siege Of Malta Hc 3 Vol
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Author : Tony Rothman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-04-30
The Course Of Fortune A Novel Of The Great Siege Of Malta Hc 3 Vol written by Tony Rothman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Fiction categories.
The Iron Knight Of Malta
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Author : Joe L Caruana MBE
language : en
Publisher: Author House
Release Date : 2013-05
The Iron Knight Of Malta written by Joe L Caruana MBE and has been published by Author House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05 with Fiction categories.
The author has written this novel with a sentimental feeling about the land of his ancestors, the Maltese people. A people who have shown remarkable courage and faith on many occasions in the history of the Mediterranean. The story of this book tells of their courage during the Great Siege of 1565, just as Voltaire said, "No siege is better known than that of the Great Siege of Malta." The five-century-old religious fight between Christians and Muslims, known as the battle between the Cross and the Koran, drifted to the shores of Malta where the Order of St. John of Jerusalem had their headquarters. It produced many heroes and tyrants, several of these are the subject of our novel. The great Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, unchallenged emperor of the Great Ottoman Empire, tries to impose Islam over Christian Europe. During five centuries, the Christian Crusaders were slowly expelled from the Holy Land, and now the great Sultan drives out the Order of St. John of Jerusalem from their last stronghold, the fortress in the island of Rhodes. Then the battle shifts to the brave Island of Malta where its people play an important role in helping La Valette and the Order fight the Turks. Jean De La Valette, commander of the Order's Christian navy, knight-adventurer, and defender of the faith, engages famous Muslim pirates, like Barbarossa and Dragut Reis, and harasses on the huge Turkish navy. He seeks to recover the Holy Cross taken by the Saracens. The secret of a forbidden romance in the paradise island of Rhodes haunts this warrior monk of eighty-four battles--a unique man enslaved by the Saracens and then escapes. He is later elevated to the position of grand master of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem and Rhodes. He was considered by his peers to be "the man for the moment" restoring the order to its former glory. One man, Jean De La Valette, the greatest of the grand masters, "the rarest of human beings," defeats the Sultan's Ottoman army in the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. La Valette became known as the Scourge of Africa and Asia, the Shield of Europe, fearless and indomitable, by his Holy Arms. With only seven hundred Knights and several thousand Spanish, Italian, Portuguese soldiers and fifteen thousand Maltese civilians (men, women, and children alike), he repels the great Turkish army of over forty thousand troops. A great historical novel of a great man and a valiant and victorious people, the people of Malta.
The Siege Of Malta
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Author : Walter Scott
language : en
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Release Date : 2011-11
The Siege Of Malta written by Walter Scott and has been published by Wildside Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11 with Fiction categories.
The island of Malta is key to the control of the central Mediterranean Sea. For five months in 1561 a Turkish force attacked Malta--and was defied, in a great epic of endurance, by the Knights of St. John. Sir Walter Scott visited the island a year before his death, and gathered material to write a novel about it, dying before it was complete. Now S. Fowler Wright has finished Scott's last great historical romance. This is a story of high courage and deep faith. At its centre stands the old Grand Master of the Order, La Vallette (after whom Valetta was named), grim and unshakeable. But it is also a story of love undaunted amid fearful perils; of a girl who, rather than be separated from the man she loves, learns to wield a sword, and, escaping by a hairsbreadth from the clutches of the infidel, finally wins even the Grand Master's grudging admiration. Here is a novel to stir the blood and stimulate the imagination.
The Last Crusaders The Great Siege
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Author : William Napier
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-06-06
The Last Crusaders The Great Siege written by William Napier and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with Fiction categories.
The siege of Malta: A brutal combat. A test of courage. A battle that will change history. Previously published as CLASH OF EMPIRES: THE GREAT SIEGE. 1565: a small island in the middle of the Mediterranean stands gatekeeper between East and West. It is about to become the scene for one of the most powerful stories of bravery, battle and bloodlust: the siege of Malta. Formed in the Holy Land in the 11th century, a small band of knights had long sought a home. Driven from their lands by Ottoman might, they came to rest in Malta from where they watched the Turks and corsairs raid the Spanish empire. As word came from Constantinople that Malta was in the sights of the Ottoman Empire, all of Europe watched a force of over 30,000 men besieged the island - peopled by 500 knights and a few thousand local soldiers. On that small rock an epic struggle will be played out - the story of individual men, warriors and slaves, but also the story of two worlds colliding.
The Siege Of Malta
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Author : Sydney Fowler Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Siege Of Malta written by Sydney Fowler Wright and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Malta categories.
The Great Siege Of Malta
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Author : Marcus Bull
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2025-01-30
The Great Siege Of Malta written by Marcus Bull and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-01-30 with History categories.
Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic – a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Hospitaller Knights on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a vast, seemingly all-powerful Ottoman armada. With three quarters of the Mediterranean’s coasts already in the hands of the Sultan and his allies, all eyes were now on Malta. This superb new account of the siege emphasises the crucial importance of the siege while at the same time putting it in a far wider context. While seen as a climactic battle between the West and the East, it was also much more nuanced than that – both sides had many other interests and priorities beyond Malta. Suleiman 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. 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.
The Last Knight An Historical Epic Movie Script About The Siege Of Malta In 1565
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Author : Brian James Godawa
language : en
Publisher: Screenplays as Literature
Release Date : 2020
The Last Knight An Historical Epic Movie Script About The Siege Of Malta In 1565 written by Brian James Godawa and has been published by Screenplays as Literature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with Performing Arts categories.
In 1565, Europe is on the brink of war with the Turkish Ottoman Empire. In England, a lone knight flees persecution only to discover that the island he has fled to is about to be invaded by the Muslims. Together with a 70-year old courageous Grand Master, they lead a small band of knights, overcoming impossible odds to save Western Civilization.
The Shaping Of Turkey In The British Imagination 1776 1923
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Author : David S. Katz
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-09-23
The Shaping Of Turkey In The British Imagination 1776 1923 written by David S. Katz and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-23 with History categories.
This book is about the principal writings that shaped the perception of Turkey for informed readers in English, from Edward Gibbon’s positing of imperial Decline and Fall to the proclamation of the Turkish Republic (1923), illustrating how Turkey has always been a part of the modern British and European experience. It is a great sweep of a story: from Gibbon as standard textbook, through Lord Bryon the pro-Turkish poet, and Benjamin Disraeli the Romantic novelist of all things Eastern, followed by John Buchan's Greenmantle First World War espionage fantasies, and then Manchester Guardian reporter Arnold Toynbee narrating the fight for Turkish independence.
A Book For The Hammock
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Author : William Clark Russell
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2023-08-22
A Book For The Hammock written by William Clark Russell and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-22 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original.