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Historical person
1494–1568
Jean Parisot de Valette was Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller during the Great Siege of Malta in 1565. His leadership during the Ottoman assault helped preserve the island as a Christian stronghold in the central Mediterranean.
In James H. Jackson’s Blood Rock, Christian Hardy, an English soldier serving among the defenders, wins the attention of Grand Master Jean Parisot de Valette through courage and military skill, but the Order faces danger from betrayal within as well as bombardment and assault from without. In Simon Scarrow’s Sword and Scimitar, as Jean de Valette organises resistance against Suleiman’s forces, Barrett must survive bombardment, factional suspicion and the struggle for the forts controlling the harbour. Other novels featuring Jean Parisot de Valette include William Napier’s The Last Crusaders: The Great Siege.
Series
The Clash of Empires sequence, also republished under The Last Crusaders titles, follows English adventurers through the sixteenth-century struggle between Ottoman power and Christian Europe. The books move from the Great Siege of Malta to the naval war that culminates at Lepanto, and then into Tudor diplomacy and…
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The Christian Hardy series follows an English soldier and intelligence agent through the military and religious conflicts of the later sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Blood Rock introduces Hardy during the Great Siege of Malta in 1565, where the Knights Hospitaller resist the Ottoman invasion and a traitor…
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