Beschreibung
“Never before in the field of human conflict have so many owed so much to so few,” declared Winston Churchill after the Battle of Britain. And the same applies to the handful of knights and other members of the Order of St. John, settled in Malta, whom we now know better as the "Knights of Malta." Together with several hundred volunteers and mercenaries and several thousand inhabitants of this rocky island, located in the Mediterranean halfway between Africa and Italy or the Middle East and Spain, they halted the attempt of the tenth Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Suleiman I, to begin the fight for the "golden apple," for the Eternal City, in the summer of 1565. The knights fought not only for their own existence but also for the future of Europe, so that churches would not turn into mosques and those Christians who survived and did not renounce their faith would not become further slaves of the "deputy of the divine messenger," as the sultans considered themselves.
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Author: Taraba Luboš
Publication date: 24. Oktober 2023
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství Epocha s. r. o.
Genres: Non-fiction literature, Books, History and facts, World war ii, War books, War novels
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 352
ISBN/EAN: 9788027801251