The Siege of Malta - Part 1

Full title . The Siege of Malta - Founded on an Unfinished Romance by Sir Walter Scott. Part 1 - St. Elmo.The island of Malta is key to the control of the central Mediterranean Sea. For five months in 1561 a Turkish force attacked Malta - and 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 Scott's 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 unsh.