Red Duster, White Ensign. The Story of Malta & the Malta Convoys. - Hardcover
The story of the embattled island of Malta and the daring convoys that saved it during World War II. - Malta, Key to the Mediterranean -- an island under siege. - The top British naval strategists of WWII regarded Malta as indefensible, and they stripped it of its armaments. But to Winston Churchil,l Malta was the most important piece of land in the Mediterranean -- the key to dominion in North Africa and the Middle East. For three harrowing years, the people of Malta remained defiant beneath the ceaseless pounding of Axis bombers. Only three antiquated bi-planes stood between the islanders and defeat. And only the celebrated Malta convoys, bringing precious food, guns and planes to the tiny island, dared challenge the enemy's sway in a siege whose scale had never been matched before in history. This is how it was. The courageous airmen who took to the skies against overwhelming odds ... the daring seamen who rode the convoys through hundreds of miles of treacherous enemy waters ... and the heroic civilian population that withstood bombs and starvation -- and never once lost hope.
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- PublisherTBS The Book Service Ltd
- Publication date1974
- ISBN 10 0856176753
- ISBN 13 9780856176753
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages246
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