Review: Ernle Bradford's The Great Siege: Malta 1565, 1961, its New Subtitle of 2010-2019, Clash of Cultures: Christian Knights Defend Western Civilization Against the Moslem Tide, and the Deliberate Omission of 16th c. Burmola (Burmula-Bormola-Bormla-Cospicua) - A Best-Selling Falsification of History in the 21st Century

This review addresses the questionable practice of adding a subtitle to an author’s work after his death, and questions the terms employed in this newly added subtitle. It then enquires into the omis­sion of mention a place from the author’s 1961 published account of the 1565 siege. The omission of a settlement that at the time of the siege was known as, Burmola, the location of the “Campo di Turchi”, the Ottoman-Muslim camp after the taking of Fort St. Elmo on the 23^rd of June 1565. It suggests the rea­son for the omission of this toponym from this book was due to the author’s relationship with the politics in Malta at the time the book was being written in the late 1950’s, it being the birthplace and power base of Dom Mintoff. The consequences of the omission of this toponym from this historical bestseller have had consequences over the past 60 years in peoples’ perception of the city and of the history of Burmo­la/Bormla/Cospicua, and have had consequences in terms of the preservation of heritage in this city.