El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa: International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century
Published:
2013
Online ISBN:
9781617971297
Print ISBN:
9789774165818
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At Each Other's Throats At Each Other's Throats
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An Island ‘Blitzed’ An Island ‘Blitzed’
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Malta: “We Had the Frontline at the Front Door” Malta: “We Had the Frontline at the Front Door”
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“The Most Drastic and Early Measures Are Needed to Restore the Situation at Malta” “The Most Drastic and Early Measures Are Needed to Restore the Situation at Malta”
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“It Is a Very Small Part of What We had Hoped For” “It Is a Very Small Part of What We had Hoped For”
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“The Ordinary Person was Getting Just Enough to Eat” “The Ordinary Person was Getting Just Enough to Eat”
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War Is a Disease War Is a Disease
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Food Stocks and Consumption in Malta 1942 Food Stocks and Consumption in Malta 1942
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Notes Notes
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Chapter
8 Feeding the Fortress: Malta, Summer 1942
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Pages
152–179
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Published:March 2013
Cite
Scheben, Thomas, 'Feeding the Fortress: Malta, Summer 1942', in Jill Edwards (ed.), El Alamein and the Struggle for North Africa: International Perspectives from the Twenty-first Century (Cairo , 2013; online edn, Cairo Scholarship Online, 18 Sept. 2014), https://doi.org/10.5743/cairo/9789774165818.003.0008, accessed 18 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
how did the population of the small but strategically important island in mid-Mediterranean manage to hold-out under conditions of siege and near starvation? This chapter is an account of the trials of the summer of 1942 in Malta, examines the Maltese citizens' combination of tenacity, and of determination not to follow the Greeks into Axis subjection, and their acceptance of a draconian plan of rationing based on one imposed on the British, equally reliant on food imports. Had Malta collapsed, it would have been as inestimable a loss to the Allies as an asset to the Axis.
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