In passage perilous : Malta and the convoy battles of June 1942 / Vincent P. O'Hara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Hara, Vincent P., 1951-

Series:

Twentieth-Century Battles

Twentieth-century battles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Malta.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Mediterranean Sea.

World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations, British.

Naval convoys--Mediterranean Sea--History--20th century.

Naval convoys.

Malta--History--Siege, 1940-1943.

Malta.

Great Britain. Royal Navy--History--World War, 1939-1945.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 p.)

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283639729

1283639726

9780253006059

0253006058

OCLC:

830023209