Strangling the Axis - The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean During the Second World War

List of contents

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.

About the author

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).

Summary

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.

Additional text

'Richard Hammond has forged one of the great missing links in our understanding of the Mediterranean campaign of the Second World War. He finally explains just how the Axis powers' ambitions were hampered by shipping shortages and why the anti-shipping war was vital to Allied success.' Niall Barr, King's College London

Product details

• Authors: Richard Hammond, Richard (Brunel University) Hammond
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781108478212
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47821-2
• No. of pages: 290
• Series: Cambridge Military Histories
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; HISTORY / Military / General, International Relations, Mediterranean Sea, Second World War, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2)