The Course of Fortune-A Novel of the Great Siege of Malta Vol. 3

<p><br></p><p>Love and death in the time of Siege... Even today 451 years after the four terrible months that almost wrested Malta out of its European context and yanked it back into the Muslim world the allure of the Great Siege of 1565 lives on and not just in the local collective memory...<em>The Course of Fortune</em> is a good read which gives a reliable version of the events of the siege and should provide many hours of pleasant reading.</p><p>-Louis J. Scerri author of <em>Malta: Origini Della Civilta Mediterranea/ Malta: Origins of Mediterranean Civilization</em></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In this epic tale Rothman uncompromisingly sets the reader deep in the 16th-century world of the Mediterranean- unmitigated with no nod to modern sensibilities or expectations. It's wonderful and refreshing. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> -Justin M. Lindsay Historical Novel Society</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>In three volumes </span><em style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Course of Fortune </em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-A Novel of the Great Siege of Malta follows the adventures of a young Spanish soldier-of-fortune Francisco de Barai over the course of fifteen of the most turbulent years in the most turbulent century in history adventures that climax in the Great Siege of Malta of 1565. </span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The horrific and heroic events are recounted with the utmost attention to historical accuracy just as the entire escalating chain of events is played out against a finely researched tapestry of Renaissance values superstitions and culture.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Tony Rothman is a physicist and writer. Rothman's scientific research has been in cosmology the study of the early universe and he has authored approximately eighty scientific papers on that subject. Currently retired he has taught physics at Princeton Harvard and NYU.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Rothman is the author of fifteen books both fiction and nonfiction. The most recent is </span><em style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A Little Book about the Big Bang</em><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> (Harvard 2022). He has also authored eight plays and contributes to a number of national magazines including </span><em style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>American Scientist</em><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Discover</em><span style=color: rgba(29 30 31 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.</span></p>