A Flag on the Island is dedicated to which British literary editor?
A Flag on the Island A Flag on the Island is a collection of short stories written by V.S. Naipaul, and first published by André Deutsch in 1967. It includes the title novella, "A Flag on the Island," outtakes from previous novels such as "The Enemy", from "Miguel Street", and pieces published in periodicals in England or the United States. The book is dedicated to Diana Athill.
Award of the George Cross to Malta The George Cross was awarded to the island of Malta by King George VI in a letter to the island's Governor, Lieutenant-General Sir William Dobbie, so as to "bear witness to the heroism and devotion of its people" during the great siege they underwent in the early part of World War II. Italy and Germany besieged Malta, then a British colony, from 1940 to 1942. The George Cross is woven into the Flag of Malta and can be seen wherever the flag is flown.