Malta Convoy - Buch
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Autoren
Buch
Originaltitel
Originalsprache
Englisch
Erstveröffentlichung
1961
Band (Reihe)
-
Typ
Buch
Genre
Sachbuch: Marine
Auflage
Titel
Sprache
Englisch
Verlag
Jahr
1989
Seitenanzahl
208
ISBN
0006329640
EAN
9780006329640
Ausgabe
Taschenbuch
Auflage
9
Inhalt/Klappentext
Here is the full account of the blazing courage an dogged resolution of the men who, in 1942, manned "the bravest and most fateful of all the convoys that were ever sailed to relieve Malta".
An armada of two battleships, four aircraft carriers, twelve cruisers and forty destroyers was depolyed to escort and protect fourteen merchant ships. Ranged against them were twenty-one submarines, twenty-three E-boats and five hundred and forty aircraft.
One of the five merchantmen who survived to reach Malta was the tanker OHIO, whose name has passed into history.
The central theme of this book is the fantastic story of the men who sailed and fought in her, refusing to consider defeat; and of the ship herself, who broken-backed and sinking, carried the oil which was Malta's sole hope of survival.
An armada of two battleships, four aircraft carriers, twelve cruisers and forty destroyers was depolyed to escort and protect fourteen merchant ships. Ranged against them were twenty-one submarines, twenty-three E-boats and five hundred and forty aircraft.
One of the five merchantmen who survived to reach Malta was the tanker OHIO, whose name has passed into history.
The central theme of this book is the fantastic story of the men who sailed and fought in her, refusing to consider defeat; and of the ship herself, who broken-backed and sinking, carried the oil which was Malta's sole hope of survival.