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Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and The Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War

Ladies of Lascaris: Christina Ratcliffe and The Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War


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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

About the 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. His previous books Winged Warriors - The Cold War from the Cockpit (2012) and Malta's Greater Siege & Adrian Warburton DSO* DFC** DFC (USA) (2015) were also published by Pen and Sword Books. The Star of Strait Street poster shown on the back cover was painted by Paul Caruana. paul-caruana.net

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"When Gimli aka John Rhys-Davies tells you to read a book, you should probably also pay attention...McDonald is a good writer who is invested in his subject, cognizant of the Big Picture, able to sound out the emotional disposition of the dramatis personae and thus certainly capable of making even the expert reader consider this book one they won't want to sit out."-- "SpeedReaders.info"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781526745453
  • Publisher: Pen & Sword Books Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Pen & Sword History
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 312
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1526745453
  • Publisher Date: 17 Dec 2018
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Christina Ratcliffe and The Forgotten Heroes of Malta's War


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