03021nam 2200673Ia 450 991046250630332120200520144314.01-283-63972-60-253-00605-8(CKB)2670000000275360(EBL)1056929(OCoLC)830023209(SSID)ssj0000759584(PQKBManifestationID)11451191(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759584(PQKBWorkID)10784019(PQKB)10004849(MiAaPQ)EBC1056929(OCoLC)816562973(MdBmJHUP)muse24382(Au-PeEL)EBL1056929(CaPaEBR)ebr10610383(CaONFJC)MIL395218(EXLCZ)99267000000027536020120503d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn passage perilous[electronic resource] Malta and the convoy battles of June 1942 /Vincent P. O'HaraBloomington Indiana University Press20121 online resource (288 p.)Twentieth-century battlesDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00603-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 shTwentieth-Century BattlesWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsMaltaWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsMediterranean SeaWorld War, 1939-1945Naval operations, BritishNaval convoysMediterranean SeaHistory20th centuryMaltaHistorySiege, 1940-1943Electronic books.World War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945Naval operations, British.Naval convoysHistory940.54/5091822O'Hara Vincent P.1951-949481MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462506303321In passage perilous2146116UNINA