Struggle for the Middle Sea: The Great Navies at War in the by Vincent P. O'Hara

By Vincent P. O'Hara

The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads the place Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. extra significant naval activities have been fought there than within the Atlantic or Pacific but remarkably little has been written concerning the topic. This clean research of the Mediterranean's naval warfare analyzes the activities and performances of the 5 significant navies--British, Italian, French, German, and American--during the total five-year crusade and examines the nationwide imperatives that drove every one nation's maritime strategy.

Struggle for the center Sea offers a historical past of the full crusade from all views and covers Germany's mostly unknown--and remarkably successful--struggle to hire sea energy within the Mediterranean after the Italian armistice. Defense & overseas Affairs Strategic Policy (August 2009) has referred to as it "a new and stunningly very important view of worldwide warfare II" and "a fabulously readable and demanding book."

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