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 Borderline Anti-Memory PastBook asks questions a diary does not ask and raises the questions to dialectics and answers them in a way a memory work does not answer questions.
