Richard Hammond (Brunel University)

Strangling the Axis

The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a major reassessment of the role of the war at sea in Allied victory in the Mediterranean. Richard Hammond demonstrates how the anti-shipping campaign was the fulcrum about which strategy in the theatre pivoted, and the vital enabling factor ultimately leading to Allied victory in the region.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Military Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 159mm x 234mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 552g
• ISBN-13: 9781108478212
• ISBN-10: 1108478212
• Artikelnr.: 58811863

Autorenporträt

Richard Hammond is a Lecturer at Brunel University and is Vice-President of the Second World War Research Group. He is the recipient of the Society for Military History's Moncado Prize and the Corbett Prize in Modern Naval History (Proxime Accessit).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The descent to war in the Mediterranean
2. Resisting Mare Nostrum: the early anti-shipping
3. Enter Germany: January-July 1941
4. Progress: August-December 1941
5. Axis ascendency, January-August 1942
6. The end of the beginning, Alam Halfa and El Alamein
7. The end in North Africa and the shipping
8. After North Africa
Conclusion.