Periscope Patrol
TURNER, J.F.
The Story of Malta Submarines.
Published: Airlife, [1997]
Stock code: 5241
Price: £16.00
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