Kate Fleet describes how Ottoman forces fought so closely at Negroponte that Muslims and infidels were 'hair to hair and beard to beard'.
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A siege story that treats faith, strategy, and geography as one problem.
Malta comes across as a hard military problem with a religious edge: a small island, a strategic harbour, and two powers testing what control of the Mediterranean meant.
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You want a siege story that treats strategy, geography, and religion as inseparable.
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