The island of Malta is key to the control of the central Mediterranean Sea. For five months in 1561 a Turkish force attacked Maltaand was defied, in a great epic of endurance, by the Knights of St. John. Sir Walter Scott visited the island a year before his death, and gathered material to write a novel about it, dying before it was complete. Now S. Fowler Wright has finished Scotts last great historical romance. This is a story of high courage and deep faith. At its centre stands the old Grand Master of the Order, La Vallette (after whom Valetta was named), grim and unshakeable. But it is also a story of love undaunted amid fearful perils of a girl who, rather than be separated from the man she loves, learns to wield a sword, and, escaping by a hairsbreadth from the clutches of the infidel, finally wins even the Grand Masters grudging admiration. Here is a novel to stir the blood and stimulate the imagination.

Binding: Paperback;842 pages; Publisher: Wildside Press LLC; Classification: N/A; Weight: 1334.27 g; Dimensions: N/A

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