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    In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942

    By Vincent P. O'Hara

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    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 ships that set out for Malta reached their destination. In Passage Perilous presents a detailed description of the operations and assesses the actual impact Malta had on the fight to deny supplies to Rommel’s army in North Africa. The book’s discussion of the battle’s operational aspects highlights the complex relationships between air and naval power and the influence of geography on littoral operations.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndiana University Press
    Release dateNov 5, 2012
    ISBN9780253006059
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      A crisp analysis of the the climactic convoy battles of 1942 wherein it's demonstrated that a cross-over point had been reached in the comparative abilities of the Royal Navy and Regia Marina, in which the British forces had essentially lost the war of attrition to the Italians; though this is perhaps a commentary on how Britain's world-wide commitments had caught up with her whereas the Italians had only one naval theater that mattered. O'Hara also muses on some of the ironies of history, particularly how the much celebrated North African campaign was really a sideshow for all involved, except that in 1940 the British had to go on the offensive SOME WHERE and taking on the Italians was their best option. The problem is that fighting in North Africa was arguably the choice that meant the empire East of Suez could not be defended, with all the history that follows in the wake of that debacle.