03076nam 2200709Ia 450 991096625760332120230801225155.09781283639729128363972697802530060590253006058(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(Perlego)2431902(EXLCZ)99267000000027536020120503d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn passage perilous 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.9780253006035 0253006031 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, 1940-1943World War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945CampaignsWorld War, 1939-1945Naval operations, British.Naval convoysHistory940.54/5091822O'Hara Vincent P.1951-1805712MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910966257603321In passage perilous4354466UNINA