[Ritchie, Capt. Lewis, RN (Bartimeus)], — THE MEDITERRANEAN FLEET - Greece to Tripoli.
HMSO, London, 1944, 1st edn., paperback original, 95pp, many half tone photos and maps in text, stapled pictorial wrappers, 9 x 7" approx., the Admiralty account of naval operations in the Eastern Mediterranean from April 1941 to January 1943, starting where the publication 'East of Malta, West of Suez' finished, it covers the aid to and then evacuation and withdrawal from both Greece and Crete with severe losses, the continuing support to Malta, attacks on Rommels supply lines and supplying the 8th Army during their advance from El Alamein to Tripoli, ills include HMS Ajax, Barham, Formidable, Warspite, Manchester, Kingston, Kimberley, Naiad, Cleopatra, Argus, Welshman, Cairo, rubbed at extrems. with nick at tail of spine, very good,
