[Valletta, 14 March 2024] – Battlefront Malta, a local NGO dedicated to raising awareness and promoting the significance and interpretation of military history in Malta,

Despite the ongoing slow death of cinema theatres, the 20th century saw ‘talkies’ as an invaluable part of society. By WW2, Cinema had already been

Leros to Lag It is very easy to write about war in a matter that interests everyone by focusing on battles and their heroic or

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Sitting on a bench with Fr. Dionysius Mintoff just outside the Peace Laboratory, I listened to the chapel’s story. He confessed that he had no

“And the air, it was an inferno, and your mind was another inferno. Reason was completely blasted out of it. The bombardment created a sort

The Royal Navy and the army’s garrison were no strangers to the occasional (or daily) drink. In 1875, a local agent of the brewer H