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 at
