In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942
(Part of the Twentieth-Century Battles Series and Twentieth-Century Battles Series)
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By mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys from Gibraltar and Egypt toward Malta. In a complex battle lasting more than a week, Italian and German forces defeated Operation Vigorous, the larger eastern effort, and ravaged the western convoy,...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0253006031
ISBN13:9780253006035
Release Date:November 2012
Publisher:Indiana University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.1"
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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