In 1565, The Grand Master of the Knights of St. John led a courageous and epic defense of the island of Malta and defeated a Turkish army in one of history's greatest sieges.
This is Chapter 17 of a work in progress entitled "These Vile Guns: The Renaissance of War" that chronicles warfare from the fall of Constatinople in 1453 to the rise of Cromwell and the New Model Army.
The heroic story of how a small group of people, few of them TB experts, found the cure for the greatest killer in human history. But the battle needed to be extended to all sufferers. Why have we failed to take the miracle to the developing world?
