Book description
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…
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This is a biography, not a novel, told by a man towards the end of his military career by chance stumbled upon a little mystery that triggered his curiousity. He set off to find the story behind the episode and uncovers bit by bit an entire world -- Malta in the war years. At its heart, this is a memorial to an exceptional woman and her tragic love for a wartime hero. It pieces together through primary sources and the memories of people who met her a remarkable life that spanned being a showgirl (dancer/entertainer) in North Africa in the…
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