Publisher's Synopsis
Summer 1939. The head of the British Fleet is confident that Mussolini will join Hitler when Germany goes to war. He hits on a bold plan - codenamed Operation Judgement - to destroy the Italian fleet, stationed at Taranto, from the air! Lieutenant Clarke and Petty Officer Gino Greenea are captured during their attempt to spy out the land at Taranto, but make a daring escape. A year later, Operation Judgement is on again. Just thirty torpedo bombers are to take on the might of the Italian navy. If they fail, the entire course of war in the Mediterranean will alter...