By Douglas Austin
A major reassessment of a key point of British process and defence coverage within the first half the 20th century.
The main contribution of this new study is an research of the function of Malta in British army method, as deliberate and because it truly built, within the interval among the mid Nineteen Twenties and the top of the struggle in North Africa in might 1943. It demonstrates that the now extensively approved trust that Malta used to be 'written off as indefensible' ahead of the conflict used to be flawed, and makes a speciality of Malta's real wartime function within the Mediterranean battle, assessing the various merits, many frequently neglected, that the British derived from retention of the island. The conclusions made problem contemporary assertions that Malta's contribution was once of restricted worth and should be of significant curiosity to either scholars and execs within the field.
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