Operation Pedestal by Max Hastings

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/130621 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Operation Pedestal Author: Max Hastings Narrator: Max Hastings, John Hopkins Format: mp3 Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins Release date: 05-13-21 Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 11 ratings Genres: Armed Forces Publisher's Summary: In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the ‘island fortress’ must be saved. The largest fleet the Royal Navy committed to any operation of the western war was assembled to escort 14 fast merchantmen across a thousand of miles of sea defended by 600 German and Italian aircraft. This is the saga Max Hastings unfolds in his first full-length narrative of the Royal Navy, which he believes was the most successful of Britain’s wartime services.