Accounts of historys greatest conflicts detailing the command strategies tactics and battle experiences of the opposing forces throughout the crucial stages of each campaign The story of Malta in World War II is one of triumph. Dominating the central Mediterranean and the all-important sea routes to and from North Africa the British crown colony endured repeated poundings by the Italian Regia Aeronautica and the German Luftwaffe. Dependent on naval supply convoys and reliant for defence on often-outnumbered fighter aircraft and anti-aircraft guns Maltas heroic survival provided the Allies with one of the first significant tactical and strategic victories of the war. Few authors have researched this subject as thoroughly as Anthony Rogers who grew up on the island and knows it intimately. This work features specially commissioned maps based on meticulous and lengthy research comparing modern satellite imagery and period cartography which indicate the positions of every searchlight LAA and HAA gun position on Malta at the time and are the most accurate produced to date. Each chapter features a careful selection of photographs (many previously unseen) together with stunning colour artworks by renowned illustrator Graham Turner. Based on British Italian German and Maltese source material this is a fascinating and colourful retelling of an epic battle. Book jacket.