The Spitfire pilot George Beurling, nicknamed 'Screwball', is the one who in fourteen flying days destroyed twenty-seven German and Italian aircraft, and damaged many more. This title tells of his sto
The siege of Malta during World War 2 is one of the great epics of aerial warfare. In 1942, it was described alternately as both a 'fighter pilot's paradise' and 'the most bombed place on earth'. Duri
Malta in the summer of 1942, a Malta wide open to air attack from the Germans and Italians and defended by a handful of Spitfires and a few anti-aircraft guns.
The inability of the Italians and Germans to invade Malta proved decisive for Allied victory in the Mediterranean during World War II, as the islands provided the Allies with a base from which to proj
