Confessions Of A European Maltese 1975 - 1992

Compare retailer offers

About this product

The years 1975 – 1992 were a period of conflict and transition all over the world, as well as in Malta. Alfred Sant’s memoirs “Confessions of a Maltese European”, provides a personal chronicle of his experiences during those years. They start with his years in Boston, at a time when US society was absorbing the shock of the resignation in disgrace of President Richard Nixon. Sant’s story then shifts to Malta. It covers the years leading to the successful finale of the Mintoff administration’s effort to eliminate once and for all the island’s reliance on the military base operated from it by the British. Meanwhile political conflict picked up and remained a feature of the Malta scene for long years to come. In 1977 Karen Grech was killed by a bomb sent to her father’s house; in 1986, Raymond Caruana was shot dead at the PN’s club in Gudja. Described by Sant as his “middle years”, the period also featured huge transformations in Malta’s economy, educational system and political behaviour. Reflecting these changes, his account repeatedly alternates points of view – from how the government system under Prime Minister Mintoff was run, to the shift in industry from textiles and clothing

More from Eduline