The Information Officer

This book definitely makes me want to go to Malta. I read a book many years ago set in wartime (WW2) Malta and was intrigued. I know ancient monuments in Malta changed archaeological thinking as to when and how civilisations began. But I never really wanted to go there. The Information Officer brings fairly recent history to life, reminding us that people we know lived through incredible and unbearable situations. Mark Mills describes the island sympathetically and discreetly. Is it still the same? I want to know. Sixty plus years later things will have changed, but the island has such a long history. This book hints at this without labouring the fact.