Angels in Iron |
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| Title: | Angels in Iron |
| Author: | Nicholas C. Prata |
| Publisher: | Arx Pub |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | 01 April, 2004 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 1889758566 / 9781889758565 |
| List Price: | $16.95 |
| You Save: | $4.75 |
| Amazon Price: | $12.20 |
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Product Description
The year is AD 1523 and the island of Rhodes has just fallen to the Turks. Those sailing away in defeat from this captured bastion are members of an anachronistic crusading order called the Knights of St. John -- otherwise known as the Hospitallers. Among the dejected company is a stalwart young knight named Jean Parisot De La Valette. Were it up to him, the order would have defended the island to the bitter end. Forty-two years later, history has repeated itself. The Hospitallers are again besieged by the teeming armies of the relentless Turk. Their tiny island-fortress of Malta is all that stands between the armies of Suleiman and the very heart of Christendom. But this time the scenario is different -- La Valette wears the Grand Master's cape. Behind him stand the knights of his faithful order: men of incredible valor ready to "strike a blow for Christ" and sacrifice their lives to halt the invading Turks at the gates of Europe. What follows is a desperate struggle between East and West, Cross and Koran, faith and despair. Angels in Iron is based on the actual events surrounding the Siege of Malta in 1565. Nicholas C. Prata relates the tale in riveting and graphic prose which brings the extreme heroism of the knights and the unimaginable horror of combat sharply into focus. Prepare yourself for an epic adventure.
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Customer Reviews:
• Great Writing And Story
06 April, 2009
I really enjoyed this book- I highly recommend it to anyone looking to learn more about this battle and enjoy the time spent doing it.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Awesome
29 December, 2008
If you want an exhilarating read that brings history to life.. then i can't recommend this book enough! It is a well written fast-paced battle story that provides heart pounding realism to a war that we should remember and pay homage.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Angels In Iron
03 March, 2010
This is such a great book--filled with vivid details of the war between the Knights of St. John Hospitallers and the Turks under the rule of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificant in 1565 on the small island of Malta.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Despite All The Glowing Reviews, I Just Couldn't Get Behind This One...
27 January, 2009
I love historical fiction, and after reading the glowing reviews for "Angels in Iron", I knew I had to check it out.
Reading the reviews again, I have to wonder if I read the same book as the other reviewers. Nothing about this book blew me away or kept me glued to the page. Indeed, I found it marginal at best, and ultimately put it aside after a little over a hundred pages.
The characters struck me as two-dimensional and rife with cliche. La Vallette may as well have been a cardboard cutout. There is nothing to him but a dogged determination to hold Malta at all costs. The lesser knights exhibit similar emotional depths.
The battle scenes were better, but in my opinion pedestrian. After the first they quickly became repetitive, and I've seen much better and more visceral descriptions in dozens of other books.
The last straw for me, though, was the superhuman prowess of the Hospitalers versus the Turks. Probably because we never get any sense of this prowess being earned, whether through training, discipline, better equipment, etc. It just is, and it takes a lot of the tension and fun out of the story.
The siege of Malta is a harrowing tale...but this novel just did not do it for me.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Blood And Death
13 November, 2008
I enjoyed this refreshingly fast paced historical novel about a crucial 1565 Christian/Islamist confrontation at the island of Malta (just south of Italy). Christian knights against Islamic Janissaries in a months long siege of the vastly outnumbered and outgunned Christian defenders of the island.
Prada excels in his description of weapons, military tactics and the grisly, brutal reality of 16th century hand to hand combat with swords, axes, pikes, spears and the like. He tries hard, and to an extent succeeds, in making you almost smell the blood, dust, urine, feces and rot of the battlefield.
But I would have liked more historical context and many of the battlefield scenes in the second half of the book seemed plagiarized from the first half. He also goes a little overboard with his superhuman knights against the brave but dumb Turk horde.
But read the book. Prata shows great promise as a writer of historical fiction.
- Amazon Customer Review
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