Now, the island is fighting back. Sitting in a cafe in Marfa Bay, Malta, Colin Backhouse gazes out at a tiny landmass on the horizon: the 3km-by-5km islet of Comino, a sun-baked slab of rock ...

Voltaire once remarked that nothing is as well-known as the 1565 Great Siege of Malta. The armed hostilities of 1940-1943 can almost make the same claim. Innumerable books have been written about ...

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In those dark, dreary days of 1565, when to be a Catholic in Ireland meant political as well as social ostracism, when to be a priest of the Catholic Church meant to be hunted like a wolf, with the ...