In The Great Siege of Malta, Marcus Bull attempts to tell a new version of the attack – but with some odd caveats over ...

Explore the islands of Malta and Gozo, both rich in remarkable ... to the fortifications of the Knights of St John, which withstood unprecedented bombardment in the second world war.

Since early modern times, the mother of all courthouses in Malta has been the ... The Order of St John administered its own internal justice for knights at the Grand Master’s Palace or in ...

Facing each other are two highly trained forces. The knights of the Order of St. John, a small but formidable Christian military Order. And the Muslim Janissaries, the fearsome crack troops of the ...

Built by the Knights of St John (Knights of Malta) after they very nearly lost the islands to the Ottoman Turks in the Great Siege, Valletta was a state-of-the-art fortified city c. 1570.