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In passage perilous : Malta and the convoy battles of June 1942 /
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 com...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
©2013.
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| Colección: | Twentieth-century battles
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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, Operation Harpoon, in a series of air, submarine, and surface attacks culminating in the Battle of Pantelleria. Just two of seventeen merchant sh. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (288 pages). |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780253006059 0253006058 0253006031 9780253006035 |