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A classic novel set in the siege of Malta 1940-1942 from the bestselling author of The Cruel SeaFather Salvatore was a simple- lumbering priest- a Kappillan serving the poor Valetta- when war came out of the blue skies to pound the island to dust.Now amid the catacombs discovered 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 forth from the Kappillan a message of inspiration to keep them going - the legendary tales of six mighty events of Maltas history which shone through the centuries and gathered them together in a fervent belief in their survival....