Reuben Cohen

Reuben Cohen was a historical writer born in 1895 and died in 1981. The clearest widely available record of his work is Knights of Malta, 1523-1798, published by Macmillan in 1920 and later preserved by Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive.

That book offers a compact history of the Order of St. John in Malta, following the knights from their settlement on the island through the upheavals that ended their rule in the late eighteenth century. Its continued availability in public-domain collections suggests it has had a long afterlife as an accessible introduction for general readers.

Little else about Cohen's personal life is easy to confirm from reliable public sources, so it is safest to let the book speak for him: he appears today as a careful popular historian whose writing helped keep a dramatic chapter of Mediterranean history within reach for non-specialists.