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Now after two years of illicit freedom
Publication Date: 22 Jun 2009
one of us would be dead
is in the grip of an obsession to hunt down the famous white whale
Klaus Hartmann
The Great Siege of Malta: The Epic Battle Between the Ottoman Empire and the Knights of St. John [email protected] Now after two years ofIn the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a Muslim invasion of Sicily, southern Italy, and beyond. The siege