A Rock and a Hard Place: The Battle of Fort Benghaisa, 1942

Had the Germans and Italians gone ahead with Operation Herkules, the invasion of Malta, a key position they would have needed to take was Fort Benghaisa. That fort guarded the second island’s second largest port on the eastern end of Malta (Marsaxlokk Bay). A Rock and a Hard Place details the planned German airborne assault to take the fort. —description from the publisher