Was Homer's ODYSSEY based on fact, or was it merely a romantic tale of early wanderlust? Ernle Bradford spent seven years in the Mediterranean in his own small sailing yacht, tracking Ulysses on the basis of clues contained in THE ODYSSEY. If you are either a sailor or a lover of classical antiqui[...]

Situated midway between Europe and Africa, Malta played a central role in the battles for the mastery of North Africa. The island was the vital supply base for British and Imperial troops in the to-and-fro desert campaigns against, first, Italy and then Germany and Rommel's Afrika Korps.The three-ye[...]

This is the history of one of the great battles of the world, written by a private soldier who was an eye-witness. The siege of Malta was a crucial moment in the long struggle between Islam and Christendom for domination of the Mediterranean, fought out by unequal forces on the small island which co[...]