Siege Malta 1940 1943

Author : Ernie Bradford
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-17
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781848845848

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Siege Malta 1940-1943 by Ernie Bradford Pdf

Situated midway between Europe and Africa, Malta played a central role in the battles for the mastery of North Africa. The island was the vital supply base for British and Imperial troops in the to-and-fro desert campaigns against, first, Italy and then Germany and Rommel’s Afrika Korps. The three-year siege of Malta was one of the longest in history. In this thrilling account the author, who first came to know and love Malta whilst serving with the Royal Navy during the Second World War, paints a vivid picture of the suffering of the island and its population. He draws on personal accounts and reminiscences of the participants; he tells of the occasional despair that turned to joy when the convoys got through with much-needed supplies and of the bravery of both the civilians and the armed forces stationed there that uniquely won for Malta the George Cross. Ernle Bradford was born in Norfolk in 1922 and joined the Royal Navy at eighteen. He served with distinction throughout the Second World War. After the war he based himself in Malta, sailing the Mediterranean in a number of small boats and writing prolifically about its history. Among his other books are The Great Siege: Malta 1565, Ulysses Found, Mediterranean: Portrait of a Sea, Cleopatra, Hannibal, The Shield and the Sword and Christopher Columbus. He died in 1986.

Author : Stewart Perowne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Malta
ISBN : UCAL:$B113670

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The Siege Within the Walls: Malta 1940-1943 by Stewart Perowne Pdf

Author : James Holland
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780225975

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Fortress Malta by James Holland Pdf

The extraordinary drama of Malta's WWII victory against impossible odds told through the eyes of the people who were there. In March and April 1942, more explosives were dropped on the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta - smaller than the Isle of Wight - than on the whole of Britain during the first year of the Blitz. Malta had become one of the most strategically important places in the world. From there, the Allies could attack Axis supply lines to North Africa; without it, Rommel would be able to march unchecked into Egypt, Suez and the Middle East. For the Allies this would have been catastrophic. As Churchill said, Malta had to be held 'at all costs'. FORTRESS MALTA follows the story through the eyes of those who were there: young men such as twenty-year-old fighter pilot Raoul Daddo-Langlois, anti-aircraft gunner Ken Griffiths, American Art Roscoe and submariner Tubby Crawford - who served on the most successful Allied submarine of the Second World War; cabaret dancer-turned RAF plotter Christina Ratcliffe, and her lover, the brilliant and irrepressible reconnaissance pilot, Adrian Warburton. Their stories and others provide extraordinary first-hand accounts of heroism, resilience, love, and loss, highlighting one of the most remarkable stories of World War II.

Author : Charles J. Boffa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Malta
ISBN : 0907930514

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The Second Great Siege by Charles J. Boffa Pdf

Author : Charles J. Boffa
Publisher : Allied Publications
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1992-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9990930120

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Second Great Siege by Charles J. Boffa Pdf

Author : Anthony Rogers
Publisher : Greenhill Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784384623

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Siege of Malta 1940–42 by Anthony Rogers Pdf

For nearly two and a half years, from June 1940 until late 1942, Malta was subjected to one Axis air raid after another. The Mediterranean island was effectively beleaguered, reliant for defence on anti-aircraft guns and often-outnumbered fighter aircraft and dependent for survival on naval supply convoys. The Axis attempted to bomb and starve Malta into submission, attacking ports, military and industrial areas, leading to Malta becoming one of the most intensively bombed areas of the Second World War, with well over 3000 alerts before the end of hostilities. But against the odds, and at heavy cost, Malta was held. Malta was vital to Allied success in North Africa, dominating Axis supply routes to the region. It was a remarkable, intense campaign, a crucial turning point in the Second World War, and one of the Allies’ greatest tactical and strategic victories. This is an account of that desperate time, as witnessed by those who were there and illustrated with their wartime photographs, together with colour images of Malta today.

Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : eReads.com
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04
Category : Malta
ISBN : 075929934X

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The Great Siege by Ernle Bradford Pdf

Suleiman the Magnificent, the most powerful ruler in the world, was determined to conquer Europe. Only one thing stood in his way: a dot of an island in the Mediterranean called Malta, occupied by the Knights of St. John, the cream of the warriors of the Holy Roman Empire. A clash of civilizations was shaping up the likes of which had not been seen since Persia invaded Greece. Determined to capture Malta and use its port to launch operations against Europe, Suleiman sent an armada and an overwhelming army. A few thousand defenders in Fort St. Elmo fought to the last man, enduring cruel hardships. When they captured the fort the Turks took no prisoners and mutilated the defenders' bodies. Grand Master La Vallette of the Knights reciprocated by decapitating his Turkish prisoners and using their heads to cannonade the enemy. Then the battle for Malta began in earnest: no quarter asked; none given. The Siege of Malta is not merely a gripping tale of brutality, courage, and tenacity, but the saga of two mighty civilizations struggling for domination of the known world.

Author : James Holland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Malta
ISBN : 0752860380

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Fortress Malta by James Holland Pdf

Author : Bruce Ware Allen
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611688436

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The Great Siege of Malta by Bruce Ware Allen Pdf

In the spring of 1565, a massive fleet of Ottoman ships descended on Malta, a small island centrally located between North Africa and Sicily, home and headquarters of the crusading Knights of St. John and their charismatic Grand Master, Jean de Valette. The Knights had been expelled from Rhodes by the Ottoman sultan, Suleiman the Magnificent, and now stood as the last bastion against a Muslim invasion of Sicily, southern Italy, and beyond. The siege force of Turks, Arabs, and Barbary corsairs from across the Muslim world outnumbered the defenders of Malta many times over, and its arrival began a long hot summer of bloody combat, often hand to hand, embroiling knights and mercenaries, civilians and slaves, in a desperate struggle for this pivotal point in the Mediterranean. Bruce Ware Allen's The Great Siege of Malta describes the siege's geopolitical context, explains its strategies and tactics, and reveals how the all-too-human personalities of both Muslim and Christian leaders shaped the course of events. The siege of Malta was the Ottoman empire's high-water mark in the war between the Christian West and the Muslim East for control of the Mediterranean. Drawing on copious research and new source material, Allen stirringly recreates the two factions' heroism and chivalry, while simultaneously tracing the barbarism, severity, and indifference to suffering of sixteenth-century warfare. The Great Siege of Malta is a fresh, vivid retelling of one of the most famous battles of the early modern world - a battle whose echoes are still felt today.

Author : James Holland
Publisher : Miramax
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-24
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015057596408

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Fortress Malta by James Holland Pdf

A riveting account of one of the great, little-known stories of World War II--the siege of Malta. 16-page photo insert.

Author : Ryan K. Noppen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472820617

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Malta 1940–42 by Ryan K. Noppen Pdf

In 1940, the strategically vital island of Malta was Britain's last toehold in the central Mediterranean, wreaking havoc among Axis shipping. Launching an air campaign to knock Malta out of the war, first Italy and then Germany sought to force a surrender or reduce the defences enough to allow an invasion. Drawing on original documents, multilingual aviation analyst Ryan Noppen explains how technical and tactical problems caused the original Italian air campaign of 1940–41 to fail, and then how the German intervention came close to knocking Malta out of the war. Using stunning full colour artwork, this fascinating book explains why the attempt by the Axis powers to take the British colony of Malta ultimately failed.

Author : Ernle Bradford
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497625808

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The Shield and the Sword by Ernle Bradford Pdf

An authoritative history of the Knights of St. John, from Jerusalem to Malta, told by the bestselling author of The Great Siege. Known by many names through their centuries-long career, The Knights Hospitaller of Saint John dedicated themselves to defending the poor and sick. First formed in Jerusalem during the Crusades of the eleventh century, the Order of Saint John grew in wealth and power rivaled only by the Knights Templar. They survived exile from the Holy Land, settling first in Rhodes and then in Malta, which they famously defended against the Ottoman Empire’s epic invasion of 1565. Even after losing Malta to Napoleon Bonaparte two centuries later, the Order of Saint John continued its mission. Ernle Bradford, whose bestselling book The Great Siege recounts their historic battle for Malta, follows the Knights of Saint John through centuries of war, politics, rivalry, and perseverance in The Shield and the Sword.

Author : Douglas Austin
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780750967044

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Churchill and Malta by Douglas Austin Pdf

This is the compelling story of the special relationship between Winston Churchill and the people of Malta. During six visits over a period of forty years he came to understand and support the aspirations of the Maltese people and in the Second World War the bonds linking them were tempered in fire and destruction. In those dark days Churchill's determination to defend the island and his faith in the courage of the Maltese people never wavered.

Author : S A M Hudson
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752478036

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UXB Malta: Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal 1940-44 by S A M Hudson Pdf

As the Regia Aeronautica and the Luftwaffe unleashed their full might against the island of Malta, the civilian population was in the eye of the storm. Faced with the terror of the unexploded bomb, the Maltese people looked for help to the Royal Engineers Bomb Disposal Section, who dealt with all unexploded bombs, outside of airfields and the RN dockyard, across an area the size of Greater London. Based on official wartime records and personal memoirs, the extraordinary tale unfolds of the challenges they faced — as the enemy employed every possible weapon in a relentless bombing campaign: 3,000 raids in two years. Through violent winter storms and blazing summer heat, despite interrupted sleep and meagre rations, they battled to reach, excavate and render safe thousands of unexploded bombs. Day after day, and in 1942 hour after hour — through constant air raids — they approached live bomb after live bomb, mindful that it could explode at any moment. In the words of one of their number they were 'just doing a job'.

Author : David Wragg
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781783034611

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Malta by David Wragg Pdf

The strategic importance of Malta sitting astride both the Axis and Allied supply routes in the Mediterranean was obvious to both sides during WW2. As a result the Island became the focal point in a prolonged and dreadful struggle that cost the lives of thousands of servicemen and civilians. After setting the scene for the action, this book tells the story of the Island's stand against the might of the Axis powers that led to the unprecedented award of the George Cross to the whole island by King George VI. It not only covers the struggle by the British and Maltese forces on the ground but the vicious fighting in the skies above. This was indeed a siege involving every man and woman on the Island.David Wragg tells the story using many first -hand accounts and yet skillfully explains the strategic situation. The result is an inspiring book worthy of the courage shown by the Islanders and their defenders.