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

by Vincent P. O'Hara and Dashka Slater

Book Overview

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"