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    IN DEEP WATER

    Jul 06, 2021 2 minutes

    OPERATION PEDESTAL The Fleet that Battled to Malta, 1942

    By Max Hastings. 448 pp. Harper, 2021. $35.

    MOST WORLD WAR II BUFFS are aware of the strategic importance of convoy battles in the North Atlantic, especially during 1941-42. These convoys constituted the critical supply chain from the United States that sustained Britain during those harrowing years. Some convoys suffered mightily

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