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You: Gabriele Tadino, military engineer. The last knight of Christendom, the first man of the modern world.

Assignment: defy Venice, your employer, and smuggle yourself into the besieged city of Rhodes.

Mission: help the Knights Hospitaller, the last Crusaders, resist the Ottoman Empire.

Odds: there’s over a hundred thousand Ottoman troops versus 700 Knights, and you.

Likely outcome: death.

What happens if you survive: Venice will hunt you down.

Do you accept?

Gabriele Tadino did. This is his story and the story of the siege of Rhodes, when 700 Knights Hospitaller and an Italian military engineer faced the might of the Ottoman Empire under their sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent. The fate of Europe lay in the balance.