The Kappillan Of Malta By Nicholas Monsarrat

Father Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a Kappillan serving the poor in ‘Valetta’, when the Second World War came out of the blue skies to pound the island to dust in 1940. Now in the fragile safety of the catacombs revealed by a chance bomb he cared for the flood of homeless, starving, frightened people who sought shelter from the death that fell unceasingly from the sky. His story, and the story of Malta, is told in superbly graphic pictures of six days during the siege. Each of those days brought from from the kappillan a message of inspiraton to keep them going – the legendary tales of six mighty events of Malta’s history which shone through the centuries and gathered them together in a fervent belief in their survival