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Paul McDonald SIGNED Ladies of Lascaris Christina Ratcliffe RAF Spitfire Malta
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Personalised
- Yes
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United Kingdom
- Subject Area
- Biographies & True Stories
- Features
- 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated, Inscribed, Signed
- ISBN
- 9781526745453
- EAN
- 9781526745453
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and the Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War
- Item Height
- 234 mm
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books LTD
- Subject
- Government, History
- Item Width
- 156 mm
- Number of Pages
- 312 Pages
About this product
Product Information
The world premiere of the musical stage play Star of Strait Street took place in Valletta on 4 April 2017. It celebrates the life of Christina Ratcliffe, an English singer and dancer who became an aircraft plotter in Malta in the Second World War. She worked in the underground Royal Air Force operational headquarters beneath Lascaris Bastion in Valletta. This is Christina's story and that of other British and Maltese girls employed by the RAF. It is also the story of Philip Glassborow's hit musical Star of Strait Street. In June 1942 fifty-three female civilian plotters worked at Lascaris, some as young as fourteen. Six including Christina were decorated for gallantry. What they did, how they lived and how some of them died is told in part using their own words. Their descriptions of life beneath the most intensive, prolonged bombing the world has ever seen are extraordinary and rare: female perspectives at the heart of military conflict. Described in the Times of Malta in 1942 as 'Christina of George Cross Island', she herself said Malta 'is carved on my heart'. For years after the Second World War in small corner cafes and bars that are such a feature of Malta's towns and villages, people talked about a remarkable RAF photo-recce pilot called Warby and his stunning companion Christina, a true heroine, they said. Yet she died alone and unnoticed and was buried in a shared grave. AUTHOR: Paul McDonald is a former Royal Air Force pilot. He served as a photo-recce pilot in Malta and as a Tornado pilot in Germany. He was decorated for gallantry in 1980 and appointed OBE in 1995. He lives in North Yorkshire. 84 colour and b/w images
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books LTD
ISBN-13
9781526745453
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17046584647
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
312 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and the Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War
Publication Year
2018
Subject
Government, History
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Biographies & True Stories
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
234 mm
Item Width
156 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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