Fortress Island Malta: Defence and Re-Supply During the Siege

by Peter Jacobs

The introduction of Italy into the Second World War on 10 June 1940 signaled the start of the siege of Malta, and for the next two and a half years the Axis powers did all they could to batter the small island into submission. Malta's defenses were initially verging on non-existent but the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, could not give up on the island. Laying at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, where the supply route between Italy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1783463325
• ISBN13: 9781783463329
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"