The Battle for Malta
2013 · IMDB 8.9 · 16 VOTES
Overview
The small Mediterranean island of Malta had been British since 1814 but was 1,000 miles from the nearest British territory -- Gibralter to the west and Egypt to the east. The population was mostly Italian and that was the lingua franca. In Italy, only a few miles to the north, dictator Benito Mussolini watched as Hitler's war machine drove the British out of continental Europe and decided he'd bet on Britain's withdrawal from the war. So feeling, he declared war on Britain, attacked in Egypt, and bombed Malta. His judgment was rather like mine when playing poker, pretty poor. The English and colonial troops repelled him in Africa and drove him back into Italian territory. Malta stood firm. The Italian bombers were only half-hearted anyway. They
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00:19:18 nearly all shipped across the Mediterranean.
00:21:01 of the submarine, and someone just said, "Oh, that's all right."
00:22:45 so Hitler turned once more to the war here in the south.
00:24:25 So many people were lost unnecessarily.
00:26:02 "Night raids started at 7:30 PM to last all night."
00:27:37 When Kesselring had written his report, he'd been right.
00:29:18 "and they met with success in their first engagement."
00:31:20 'In March, a four-ship convoy was sent from Alexandria.
00:32:53 If you had the money, there was nothing to buy.
00:34:55 Malta had become the most bombed place on earth.
00:36:42 And when your back is to the wall, you seem to have a lot more courage.
00:38:29 You are not alone.
00:40:09 The whole building shook, but as the dust settled
00:41:30 and I thought, "That's not our plane."
00:43:15 Weakened and vulnerable, the island was braced for invasion.
00:44:46 The scars of that air battle remain.
00:46:22 He'd not been on the island a month.
00:47:58 It says, "Keepers of poultry" and rabbits are their wits' end
00:49:24 With few supplies
00:50:56 "but washed when necessary and used repeatedly
00:52:47 For those here on Malta, all they could do now was wait.
00:54:38 All along the bastions
00:56:40 Just two weeks after the Ohio reach the island
00:58:17 to Britain's position in Egypt and the Middle East.