From the day Mussolini's Italy declared war on Britain in June 1940, the island of Malta was under siege. Its strategic importance was obvious to both sides, blocking as it did the supply route across the Mediterranean from Italy to the Axis armies in North Africa. It had to be bombed out of existence by the Axis powers and preserved at all costs by the British. That Malta survived was due to the courage and fortitude of her people and to the dauntless determination of the Royal Navy and the Merchant Navy. Here Richard Woodman tells the full, terrifying story of how - at fearsome cost - the impossible was achieved.
- ISBN10 0719564085
- ISBN13 9780719564086
- Publish Date 20 February 2003 (first published 13 April 2000)
- Publish Status Transferred
- Out of Print 11 June 2005
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Murray Press
- Imprint John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (UK Trade)
- Pages 560
- Language English