The Santa Marija Convoy - Faith and Endurance in Wartime Malta, 19401942

Informationen zum Autor Dennis Castillo is professor of church history at Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora, New York. Klappentext During World War II, Malta played a key role in the Mediterranean campaign, its submarines, light surface forces, and aircrafts destroying supplies desperately needed by Rommel's forces in North Africa. The price the Maltese paid for this effort was the most sustained and intensive bombing campaign in the war, enduring over 130 tons of bombs per square mile. This, compounded by the Axis blockade that attempted to starve Malta into surrender, set the stage for numerous convoy battles, the most dramatic being Operation Pedestal, remembered on Malta to this day as the Santa Marija Convoy. In this book, Dennis Castillo uses published histories as well as interviews and oral histories to explore the experiences of the Maltese and how their faith sustained them through this dark period of Malta's history. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionChapter One: The Maltese IslandsChapter Two: The Faith Chapter Three: Malta and BritainChapter Four: The War BeginsChapter Five: The First RaidsChapter 6: The Italian PhaseChapter Seven: Doom's DayChapter Eight: Defying the "Phooey"Chapter Nine: The Angels of DoomChapter Ten: The Summer of 1942Chapter Eleven: The Santa Marija ConvoyChapter Twelve: "...we got there at last"Chapter Thirteen: Dona Nobis PacemBibliography

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Castillo, Castillo Dennis
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.12.2011
• EAN: 9780739128954
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-2895-4
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Malta, European History, HISTORY / Military / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Modern warfare, History / Wars & Conflicts / World War II / European Theater, European History;Religion;Religious History;Wolrd History