Word: maltas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through the bomb-bursts and ack-ack that once made Malta about the hottest spot this side of hell appeared an old familiar face last week. Its somewhat-forgotten owner was Major General John Hay Beith, better known to U.S. readers by his pen name: Ian Hay. Author Hay's The First Hundred Thousand was the biggest best-seller among World War I war books until Private Peat and Arthur Guy Empey's Over the Top went over...
...Malta Epic (Appleton-Century; $3), Author Hay's first book about World War II, may or may not be a bestseller. But it is the most crackling and inclusive of several recent books about "the most bombed spot on earth."* The concussive quality of Author Hay's Malta narrative is measureable in part by three Malta facts...
...epic naval Battle of the Mediterranean. Since 1939, first as commander of the British Mediterranean Fleet, finally as commander of the Allied Mediterranean fleet, he had hunted for the Italians, sought to turn mare nostrum into mare Britannicum. His quest had ended in September 1943, at Malta, where the Italian Fleet surrendered. Now, as the Battle of the Atlantic flared with new violence, Sir Andrew set another sight...
...cliff-girt Malta Harbor, still showing the scars of Axis bombs, royalist Marshal Pietro Badoglio and a retinue of aides went last week. They were piped aboard H.M.S. Nelson...
...rally the Italian people and army "against the common enemy," the Allied High Command seemed to have worked out this pattern at Malta: >The U.S. and Britain would accept the Badoglio regime as a cobelligerent. But the line between cobelligerent and ally was hard to draw. Allied soldiers were already finding Badoglio officials unwilling to be treated as defeated enemies...