Foreword
Chapter 1 - The Sultan of the Ottomans
Chapter 2 - Malta of the Knights
Chapter 3 - Grand Master La Valette
Chapter 4 - Defences of the Island
Chapter 5 - Preparations
Chapter 6 - Invasion Imminent
Chapter 7 -The Attack Begins
Chapter 8 -The First Clash
Chapter 9 - Objective, St Elmo
Chapter 10 - The Janissaries
Chapter 11 - The Arrival of Dragut
Chapter 12 - ‘A Volcano in Eruption …’
Chapter 13 - Sentence of Death
Chapter 14 - St Elmo, the Eighth of June
Chapter 15 - Embattled Fortress
Chapter 16 - The Territory of the Knights
Chapter 17 - The Fall of St Elmo
Chapter 18 - Bodies in the Water
Chapter 19 - The Little Relief
Chapter 20 - The Attack on Senglea
Chapter 21 - Arms and the Men
Chapter 22 - Death in the Marsa
Chapter 23 - The Great Decision
Chapter 24 - Into the Breach
Chapter 25 - ‘ … The World Was Coming to an End’
Chapter 26 - No Withdrawal
Chapter 27 - Dissensions in Sicily
Chapter 28 - The Relief
Chapter 29 - The Last Engagement
Chapter 30 - ‘We Shall Never Take You’
Chapter 31 - The Impregnable Fortress
Bibliography
Notes
Glossary

About the Author

Ernle Bradford was born in 1922 and died in 1986. He was a noted British historian specializing in the Mediterranean world and naval topics. Bradford was an enthusiastic sailor himself and spent almost thirty years sailing the Mediterranean, where many of his books are set. He served in the Royal Navy during World War II, finishing as the first lieutenant of a destroyer. Bradford lived in Malta for a number of years. He did occasional broadcast work for the BBC, was a magazine editor, and wrote many books, including Hannibal, Paul the Traveller, Julius Caesar: The Pursuit of Power, Christopher Columbus, and The Mighty Hood.

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