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On 24 May 1565 the Ottoman artillery opened fire on Fort St. Elmo, one of the fortresses of the Knights hospitaller. This was the beginning of the great siege of Malta. Behind the artillery, an army of 40,000 soldiers was waiting to conquer the island, sent there by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, who wanted to strengthen the position of the Ottoman Empire in the struggle for supremacy in the Mediterranean and wipe out the Order of St. John, also known as Knights Hospitaller once and for all. But the Knights together with Maltese militia and a number of mercenaries, put up a fierce fight. Europe was trembling as the siege developed into a war of attrition of epic proportions. The possibility of an Ottoman bridgehead so close to Italy had never been more real.
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Reading list:
Warfare:
Duffy, C., Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World 1494-1660, Vol. 1, 1979. [ Ссылка ]
Devries, K., Douglas, R., Medieval Military Technology, 1992, [ Ссылка ].
Rogers, C.J., The military revolution debate. Readings on the military transformation of early modern Europe, 1995. [ Ссылка ]
Rogers, C.J., Soldiers' Lives through History - The Middle Ages, 2006. [ Ссылка ]
Parker, C., The Cambridge History of Warfare, 2005. [ Ссылка ]
Van Nimwegen, O., The Dutch Army and the Military Revolutions, 1588-1688, 2010. [ Ссылка ]
Fiction related to the Early modern period:
Alexandre Dumas,The Three Musketeers [ Ссылка ]
Alexandre Dumas, 20 Years After [ Ссылка ]
Alexandre Dumas, The Vicomte de Bragelonne [ Ссылка ]
Markus Heitz, The Dark Lands [ Ссылка ]
Military Si-Fi recommendations:
Bernard Cornwell, Sharpe (Series of 22 books on the Napoleonic Wars), [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Founding: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Lost: A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Dan Abnett, The Saint A Gaunt's Ghosts Omnibus (Gaunt’s Ghosts) [ Ссылка ]
Glen Cook, Chronicles of the Black Company (Chronicles of the Black Company Series Book 1) [ Ссылка ]
Historiography:
Neville Morley, Writing Ancient History 1999. [ Ссылка ]
Albeit focused on ancient history, it's a brilliant book for anybody who is interested in what history actually is. Is it a story? How does it work in practise? Can writing history be objective? Is it "scientific"? What makes it a proper discipline at university?
