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Continuing Frank Barnard's brilliant World War Two fighter pilot series - this time the theatre of war is the incredible story of the Siege of Malta.

Some called it a fighter pilot's Paradise, others Hell on earth. This was Malta in 1941, the tiny island that held the key to the Mediterranean for the Allies and Axis alike. Stubbornly, a bruised and battered garrison held out against the worst that the German and Italian forces could muster, by air and sea. Not least the Royal Air Force, outnumbered and, at first, equipped with obsolete machines. Until, in 1942, the Spitfires came... Read More >>>