Cross And The Ensign By Peter Elliot

“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 has been the Mediterranean, and this simple truth root cause of some of the fiercest fighting in European history. Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, French and British over the island’s have all vied for supremacy strategic significance. The Cross and the Ensign gives the first detailed account of the naval history of Malta over two British rule, centuries, from the earliest days of through the critical period of the Second World War, when Malta held the key not only to the Mediterranean but also to North Africa, to the advent of independence