Presents a thirteen-volume reference guide to the geography, history, economy, government, culture and daily life of countries in Europe.

And when ultimate disaster threatens, they will stake everything on a shattering test of love that could secure the fate of generations . . . or destroy them and all they cherish. From the Hardcover edition.

Ship's doctor Stephen Maturin, a British intelligence agent, stands as the sole bulwark against the sabotage of his friend Captain Jack Aubrey's mission in Malta.

This is what we dream of: to be so swept away, so poleaxed by a book that the breath is sucked right out of us.

A handy reference that provides an introduction to the history of the strategic archipelago of Malta.

This book describes how the island of Malta became a protectorate of the British Crown during the wars against Napoleon after the failures of the Knights of Saint John, republican France, the Two Sicilies, and finally imperial Russia to ...