In Passage Perilous : Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942 /

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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 com...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: O'Hara, Vincent P., 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Great Britain. > Royal Navy.
Great Britain. > Royal Navy > History > World War, 1939-1945.
Naval convoys.
Military campaigns.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Malte.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Campagnes et batailles > Mediterranee.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Malta.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Mediterranean Sea.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, British.
Naval convoys > Mediterranean Sea > History > 20th century.
Mediterranean Sea.
Malta.
Malte > Histoire > 1940-1943 (Siege)
Malta > History > Siege, 1940-1943.
History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (288 pages).
ISBN:9780253006059

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