Angels in Iron
by Nicholas C. Prata
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Author: Nicholas C. PrataBrand: AMZ - Omaha
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-04-01
ISBN: 1889758566
Number of pages: 292
Publisher: Arx Pub
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- ISBN13: 9781889758565
- Condition: New
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Summary: 5 Stars
As the author of a similar genre book, The Spear of Lepanto (2005), I congratulate Nicholas Prata's Angels in Iron. His riveting account of the crucial 1565 Siege of Malta between the Ottoman Turks and the Knights of St. John is a testimony to unyielding faith in the face of staggering odds.
From early childhood, I was always impressed by the courage of King Leonidas of the Spartans. The story of the Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) has lived in the annals of history as a shining symbol of heroism, bravery and gritty determination.
Just as Leonidas stood in defiance before an overwhelming Persian host with his valiant 300, so did Jean Parisot de la Valette stand some 2,000 years later. As grand master of the legendary Knights of St. John, la Valette, with 592 knights and several thousand Maltese and European volunteers defied for four months the 40,000 plus forces and heavy guns of Suleyman the Magnificent on the tiny island of Malta.
Author Nicholas Prata has given us a new insight and appreciation of this important confrontation that may indeed have saved Christian Europe from the onslaught of Moslem steel. Had it not been for la Valette's stubborn resistance, it is quite apparent that the Italian peninsula would be the next target for Turkish armies from a fortified base at Malta.
Prata gives us chapter after chapter of men refusing surrender in the face of certain death, men who drew strength and a sense of invincibility from their faith. I commend the author for his authentic page turning account of the great siege. Certainly la Valette stands equally with Leonidas when it comes to devotion to duty and dogged determination in the face of incredible odds.
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