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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...
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Bloomington :
Indiana University Press,
2013.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a In Passage Perilous : |b Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942 / |c Vincent P. O'Hara. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a The vital sea -- Malta and the Mediterranean war to 1942 -- The Mediterranean war January to May 1942 -- Global snapshot, June 1942 -- Operation Vigorous -- Operation Harpoon -- The Battle of Pantelleria -- The August convoy -- Torch to the end of the war. | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
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| 651 | 7 | |a Malta. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01207170 | |
| 651 | 6 | |a Malte |x Histoire |y 1940-1943 (Siege) | |
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