{"product_id":"in-passage-perilous-malta-and-the-convoy-battles-of-june-1942-9780253006035","title":"In Passage Perilous: Malta and the Convoy Battles of June 1942","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy 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.\u003ci\u003e In Passage Perilous\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eVincent P. O'Hara is a naval historian and the author of five books including\u003ci\u003e Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater 1940-1945 \u003c\/i\u003e(2009). He serves on the editorial review board of Global War Studies and is a \u003ci\u003eCollaboratori\u003c\/i\u003e for \u003ci\u003eStoria MILITARE\u003c\/i\u003e magazine. Mr. O'Hara contributed introductions to two volumes of Samuel E. Morison's \u003ci\u003eHistory of United States Naval Operations in World War II, \u003c\/i\u003e which has been recently republished by the Naval Institute; he is an assistant editor of \u003ci\u003eWorld War II at Sea: An Encyclopedia;\u003c\/i\u003e and a regular contributor to publications such as the respected British annual \u003ci\u003eWarship.\u003c\/i\u003e O'Hara holds a history degree from the University of California, Berkeley, and resides in southern California.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50318603190546,"sku":"9780253006035","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_18c0fd50-d5d4-4fa3-aea8-ef899505694a.jpg?v=1727558824","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/in-passage-perilous-malta-and-the-convoy-battles-of-june-1942-9780253006035","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}