The Cross and the Ensign : A Naval History of Malta 1798-1979 / Peter Elliott

United Kingdom : Grafton Books Ltd., 1989

Paperback

"Malta - that tiny rock of history and romance". This was how Sir Winston Churchill described the Mediterranean island that has for centuries enjoyed an importance out of all proportion to its size. Whoever controls Malta controls the Mediterranean, and this simple truth has been the root cause of some of the fiercest fighting in European history. Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French and British have all vied for supremacy over the island's strategic significance.

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