war’s Mediterranean Theatre. Her airfields and naval base stood directly in the path of Italy’sand Germany’s line of communications to North Africa.”His enthralling ”Operation C3” is a detailed study of the Axis 1942 plan to take Malta. “C3”examines the future combatants up to the Axis capture of Tobruk in June 1942. John thenprovides us a realistic assessment of what would have happened had Hitler decided to push thebutton to launch. The book then provided buffs a day-by-day battle narrative of the invasion asif it occurred on Saturday, 15 August 1942, as planned. The battle. Narrative is based uponHitler’s actual plans hitherto unpublished, long buried plans in the Italian and Maltese militaryarchives, in addition to “what could have happened when those plans collided. An unusual, yetuseful, “Reality & Analysis” section in Chapter 12, pages 200 to 250, excite us for more. John’sBibliographies, Appendices consisting of Axis Land-Naval-Air, and British/Maltese Land Ordersof Battle are to die for since as far as this reviewer knows have never been published in book
form. Really, buff, this is one that must be included in your growing military library.
