The Great Siege of Malta Audiobook By Marcus Bull cover art

The Great Siege of Malta

Preview
LIMITED TIME OFFER

3 months free
Try for $0.00
Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT.
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
Premium Plus auto-renews for $14.95/mo after 3 months. Cancel anytime.

The Great Siege of Malta

By: Marcus Bull
Narrated by: Justin Avoth
Try for $0.00

$0.00/mo. after 3 months. Offer ends July 31, 2025 at 11:59PM PT. Cancel anytime.

Buy for $20.33

Buy for $20.33

Confirm purchase
Pay using card ending in
By confirming your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use, License, and Amazon's Privacy Notice. Taxes where applicable.
Cancel

Brought to you by Penguin.

Even as the great siege began it was understood by both sides to be an epic – a potentially decisive encounter between an uneasy assortment of soldiers, native Maltese, adventurers and Knights Hospitaller on a strategically crucial but near waterless island and a vast, seemingly all-powerful Ottoman armada. With three quarters of the Mediterranean’s coasts already in the hands of the Sultan and his allies, all eyes were now on Malta.

This superb account of the siege emphasises the crucial importance of the siege while at the same time putting it in a far wider context. While seen as a climactic battle between the West and the East, it was also much more nuanced than that – both sides had many other interests and priorities beyond Malta. Suleiman the Magnificent had conquered and subsumed regions from Hungary to the Persian Gulf; Philip II was building an empire in America and Asia.

Drawing on a wide range of eyewitness stories, Marcus Bull gives a vivid sense of the period’s technologies, values and assumptions. It was a grim world built on the labour of many thousands of disposable galley-slaves, shockingly brutal forms of warfare and religious absolutism. But it was also a world filled with the most extraordinary new discoveries and ideas. Both these worlds come together in the siege and in this book.

©2025 Marcus Bull (P)2025 Penguin Audio
16th Century Europe Middle East Military Modern Renaissance Turkey Wars & Conflicts Siege Imperialism

Listeners also enjoyed...

The Last Dynasty Audiobook By Toby Wilkinson cover art
The Last Dynasty By: Toby Wilkinson
Ancient Christianities Audiobook By Paula Fredriksen cover art
Ancient Christianities By: Paula Fredriksen
Ocean Audiobook By John Haywood cover art
Ocean By: John Haywood
Debunking FDR Audiobook By Mary Grabar cover art
Debunking FDR By: Mary Grabar
Dynasty Audiobook By Tom Holland cover art
Dynasty By: Tom Holland
The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It Audiobook By Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, Alfred Stettner - foreword cover art
The P-38 Lightning and the Men Who Flew It By: Wolfgang W. E. Samuel, and others
Herod the Great Audiobook By Martin Goodman cover art
Herod the Great By: Martin Goodman
A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1 Audiobook By A. Wilson Greene, Gary W. W. Gallagher - foreword cover art
A Campaign of Giants: The Battle for Petersburg, Volume 1 By: A. Wilson Greene, and others
The Great Siege of Malta Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art
The Great Siege of Malta By: Charles River Editors
Escape from the Deep Audiobook By Alex Kershaw cover art
Escape from the Deep By: Alex Kershaw
Operation Typhoon Audiobook By David Stahel cover art
Operation Typhoon By: David Stahel
Philip and Alexander Audiobook By Adrian Goldsworthy cover art
Philip and Alexander By: Adrian Goldsworthy
The Mesopotamian Riddle Audiobook By Joshua Hammer cover art
The Mesopotamian Riddle By: Joshua Hammer
1453 Audiobook By Roger Crowley cover art
1453 By: Roger Crowley
Pax Audiobook By Tom Holland cover art
Pax By: Tom Holland
Crécy Audiobook By Michael Livingston cover art
Crécy By: Michael Livingston
Battle for the Island Kingdom Audiobook By Don Hollway cover art
Battle for the Island Kingdom By: Don Hollway
New Rome Audiobook By Paul Stephenson cover art
New Rome By: Paul Stephenson
Justinian Audiobook By Peter Sarris cover art
Justinian By: Peter Sarris
Leyte Gulf Audiobook By Mark E. Stille cover art
Leyte Gulf By: Mark E. Stille

People who viewed this also viewed...

The Great Siege Audiobook By Ernle Bradford cover art
The Great Siege By: Ernle Bradford
Nemesis Audiobook By Dr Catherine Hanley, Tina Ross cover art
Nemesis By: Dr Catherine Hanley, and others
Spice Audiobook By Roger Crowley cover art
Spice By: Roger Crowley
The Great Siege of Malta Audiobook By Charles River Editors cover art
The Great Siege of Malta By: Charles River Editors
The Lives of the Caesars Audiobook By Suetonius, Tom Holland - introduction translator cover art
The Lives of the Caesars By: Suetonius, and others
Rubicon Audiobook By Tom Holland cover art
Rubicon By: Tom Holland
America, América Audiobook By Greg Grandin cover art
America, América By: Greg Grandin
Most relevant  
A good account of the Great Seige s events. It sometimes veers a bit too far from the subject matter (especially the unnecessary reference to a political incident in the very end on which the author shows a complete lack of understanding) but when the book sticks to the story, it does a very decent job.

Good overall, could have been more focused.

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.