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Autore: |
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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Pubblicazione: | Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (288 p.) |
Disciplina: | 940.54/5091822 |
Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
Soggetto geografico: | Malta History Siege, 1940-1943 |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | In passage perilous ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-283-63972-6 |
0-253-00605-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910818606503321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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