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    The fight for Malta

    Oct 09, 2021 2 minutes

    Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta 1942

    Max Hastings

    HarperCollins, 2021

    464 pages

    Hardcover, £25.00

    ISBN: 9780008364946

    Sir Max Hastings is a renowned historian, having first established his reputation with Bomber Command (1979) and burnished it by his personal involvement as a journalist at the Falklands is something of a departure for him. He describes the work as ‘my first full-length narrative about the war at sea’ (xxi), and it is notable as a stand-alone (as any pedestal should be) volume, not published to coincide with any anniversary, but as a tribute to the memory of those who took part in a gruelling and bloody military undertaking often viewed as something of a failure.

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