LEADER 03021nam 2200673Ia 450 001 9910462506303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-63972-6 010 $a0-253-00605-8 035 $a(CKB)2670000000275360 035 $a(EBL)1056929 035 $a(OCoLC)830023209 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000759584 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11451191 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000759584 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10784019 035 $a(PQKB)10004849 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1056929 035 $a(OCoLC)816562973 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24382 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1056929 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10610383 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL395218 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000275360 100 $a20120503d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn passage perilous$b[electronic resource] $eMalta and the convoy battles of June 1942 /$fVincent P. O'Hara 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2012 215 $a1 online resource (288 p.) 225 0 $aTwentieth-century battles 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00603-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aBy mid-1942 the Allies were losing the Mediterranean war: Malta was isolated and its civilian population faced starvation. In June 1942 the British Royal Navy made a stupendous effort to break the Axis stranglehold. The British dispatched armed convoys from Gibraltar and Egypt toward Malta. In a complex battle lasting more than a week, Italian and German forces defeated Operation Vigorous, the larger eastern effort, and ravaged the western convoy, Operation Harpoon, in a series of air, submarine, and surface attacks culminating in the Battle of Pantelleria. Just two of seventeen merchant sh 410 0$aTwentieth-Century Battles 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zMalta 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns$zMediterranean Sea 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations, British 606 $aNaval convoys$zMediterranean Sea$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aMalta$xHistory$ySiege, 1940-1943 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCampaigns 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xNaval operations, British. 615 0$aNaval convoys$xHistory 676 $a940.54/5091822 700 $aO'Hara$b Vincent P.$f1951-$0949481 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910462506303321 996 $aIn passage perilous$92146116 997 $aUNINA