{"product_id":"the-kappillan-of-malta-by-nicholas-monsarrat-3312e","title":"The Kappillan of Malta by Nicholas Monsarrat","description":"\u003cp\u003eFather Salvatore was a simple, lumbering priest, a kappillan serving the poor in Valletta, when war came out of the blue skies to pound the island to dust. His family was noble indeed. His mother, the Baroness Celeste Emilia Santo-Nobile still reigned in her magnificent palazzo, built in 1570 at the time of the first auberges of the Knights of the Order of St John, and rivalling them in splendour. His sister, Giovanna, was married to the wealthy Lewis Debrincat and had produced two delightful children. But Father Salvatore had only his faith to take the place of style, and the example he could not emulate of the last Cardinal to be sired by a Santo-Nobile a hundred years ago. n nNow amid the catacombs discovered by a chance bomb, which knocked a corner off the bastions of the Cottonera Lines, he cared for the flood of homeless, starving, frightened people who sought shelter from the death that fell unceasingly from the sky. His story and the story of Malta is told in superbly graphic pictures of six days during the siege of Malta from 11 June 1940 to August 15 1942. Each of those days was, for Father Salvatore and his people, a day of terror or of hope, and each brought forth from the kappillan a message of inspiration to keep them going - the legendary tales of six mighty events of Malta's history which shone through the centuries and gathered them together in a fervent belief in their survival.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Express","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41843417907274,"sku":"3312e","price":8.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/9101\/8826\/files\/3312e.jpg?v=1764498612","url":"https:\/\/www.bookexpress.nz\/products\/the-kappillan-of-malta-by-nicholas-monsarrat-3312e","provider":"Book Express","version":"1.0","type":"link"}