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The Great Siege of Malta

著者: Marcus Bull
ナレーター: Justin Avoth
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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 Knights Hospitaller 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.

© Marcus Bull 2025 (P) Penguin Audio 2025

16世紀 トルコ ヨーロッパ 中東 戦争・紛争 武器・戦闘 近世の戦争 近代
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An engrossing new study… Bull’s account of the siege itself is lucid and dispassionate. He has a sharp eye for bombast – representing the failed defence of St Elmo as a heroic act of self-sacrifice, for example – that might obscure uncomfortable truths… Bull has set himself a challenging task: to convey the drama of the siege and the myths that grew out of it while downplaying, if not denying, suggestions of its wider historical importance. It’s a difficult balancing act, but one he pulls off with aplomb (Mathew Lyons)
Marcus Bull’s revisiting of the siege through the eyes of the Ottomans and a global lens that shifts our angle of vision has made a considerable contribution to our understanding of the events of 1565... his approach is investigatory, based on a forensic study of all the available evidence and posing open-ended questions... the coverage of the siege itself is succinct and full of interesting perspectives (Roger Crowley)
Impressive, deeply researched… Rather than pursue old religious agendas and messianic readings of the triumph Bull places the siege in a broad global economic and political context (Andrew Lambert)
Thorough and propulsive (Michael Prodger)
A vivid account of a close-run thing … peculiarly fascinating (David Horspool)
Thoughtful and incisive… a great strength of Bull’s book is precisely that he often dissents from received opinion… he has provided an impressive reassessment, rich in penetrating insights, of a major moment in the history of the Mediterranean (David Abulafia)
An epic account… [a] no-nonsense, myth-busting book… [Bull] writes with knightly brio and packs a great deal of local and global history into his authoritative book (Pratinav Anil)
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