In June 1940, the Italian destroyer Espero was racing supplies and troops toward North Africa when British cruisers ...
Great Britain’s fleet at Gibraltar welcomed the assignment last week of escorting three supply ships bound for Malta through what Italy still calls Mare Nostrum (“Our Sea”) but which cartoonists now ...
As Admiral Graf Spee approached the River Plate estuary, a tense and decisive battle unfolded between the German raider and three British cruisers, Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles. Despite being outgunned, ...
Out of Italy, fortnight ago, roared a triumphant tale of victory over the British Mediterranean Fleet. Gleefully Rome told of sinking a British cruiser in the Malta Channel, damaging an aircraft ...