Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942, by Max Hastings
By Timothy Sandefur
New York: Harper, 2021
428 pp. $35, hardcover
Among the horrific battles of World War II, Operation Pedestal—the 1942 effort to resupply Britain’s besieged colony on the Mediterranean island of Malta—seems relatively minor. It was nothing like the Battles of Stalingrad, which lasted six months and killed two million people; or Okinawa, which involved hund…
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