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."
00:22:49 The Luftwaffe had returned.
00:24:28 Golden people, shot down.
00:26:14 it's only going to get a whole load worse.
00:27:41 Despite better planes being available back in Britain
00:29:39 On Sicily, Kesselring had more than 800
00:31:32 always reported the early attacks on them, so we knew that.
00:33:11 One got used to hunger, too.
00:35:12 so by expanding the old sewage system
00:37:10 and cement British claims to the island.
00:38:46 was a promising young artist.
00:40:27 Compared with what they were up against
00:41:54 'Malta now had the most sophisticated ground control
00:43:36 "They seemed very close. 'Am I going to be killed now?', I thought.
00:45:05 15 feet apart, exactly the spacing they would have been on a Spitfire.
00:46:56 "Thereupon the Fuhrer expressed the following dramatically
00:48:20 This is the absolute last resort.
00:49:58 And sanitation was worsening.
00:51:28 They always believed that it would be all right.
00:53:35 three destroyers hurried to its rescue.
00:55:28 because that really brought everything.
00:57:19 But it was the change in Axis strategy that spared Malta.
27:19:04 a cannon shell in the terrace."