Malta Spitfire Pilot: Ten Weeks of Terror, April-June 1942

An RAF fighter pilot's "intensely vivid" account of the siege of Malta in World War II (The Times Literary Supplement).

In the summer of 1942, Malta was vulnerable to air attack from the Germans and Italians, and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns. Denis Barnham, a young and inexperienced flight lieutenant, spent ten hectic weeks on this indomitable island; he left a well-ordered English aerodrome for the chaos and disillusionment of Luqa. His task was to enga...