In Passage Perilous in Passage Perilous - Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942 Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942 (Electronic book text)

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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 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 ships that set out for Malta reached their destination. In Passage Perilous presents a detailed description of the operations and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to RommelOCOs army in North Africa. The bookOCOs discussion of the battleOCOs operational aspects highlights the complex relationships between air and naval power and the influence of geography on littoral operations.


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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 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 ships that set out for Malta reached their destination. In Passage Perilous presents a detailed description of the operations and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to RommelOCOs army in North Africa. The bookOCOs discussion of the battleOCOs operational aspects highlights the complex relationships between air and naval power and the influence of geography on littoral operations.

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Indiana University Press

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United States

Series

Twentieth-Century Battles

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November 2012

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Electronic book text - Windows

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288

ISBN-13

978-0-253-00605-9

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9780253006059

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0-253-00605-8



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