Author: TURNER J.F.
Title: Periscope Patrol. The Story of Malta Submarines.
Description: Airlife,, [1997]. 8vo., with 12 plates on 8; original pictorial wrappers, a fine copy. Much-needed, good quality paperback re-issue of the original Harrap edition of 1957. The best early account, with some rare photographs, of the harassment of Germany's North African supply route. During the bitter sixteenth-month struggle half the Axis shipping was sunk, but half the submarines (largely from the legendary 10th Flotilla) failed to return

Keywords: naval, ww2, royal navy, submarines, malta, 10th flotilla, simpson, j.f. turner, naval, wwii, periscope, patrol


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