| Description |
1 online resource (288 pages) |
| Series |
Twentieth-century battles |
| Contents |
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 |
| 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Great Britain. Royal Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain. Royal Navy fast |
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Naval convoys -- Mediterranean Sea -- History -- 20th century
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, British
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Mediterranean Sea.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Malta.
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Military campaigns
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Naval convoys
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| SUBJECT |
Malta -- History -- Siege, 1940-1943.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95002305
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| Subject |
Malta
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Mediterranean Sea
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012015993 |
| ISBN |
9780253006059 |
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0253006058 |
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0253006031 |
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9780253006035 |
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