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O'Hara Vincent P. <1951-> |
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Titolo |
In passage perilous : Malta and the convoy battles of June 1942 / / Vincent P. O'Hara |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2012 |
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ISBN |
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1-283-63972-6 |
0-253-00605-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (288 p.) |
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Collana |
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Twentieth-century battles |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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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 |
Malta History Siege, 1940-1943 |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 sh |
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