The Battle for the Mediterranean: Allied and Axis Campaigns from North Africa to the Italian Peninsula, 1940-45
"This book provides a strategic overview of the war that is interweaved with fascinating personal accounts, its campaigns and battles." - Professor Geoffrey Roberts.

In this exciting and illuminating account, Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the major campaigns across the whole Mediterranean during World War II, from the struggle for control of the Suez Canal to the Allied landings in the French Riviera in the summer of 1944. This was America's first foray into the European theater and marked a real turning point in the Allied offensive against Axis powers.

Includes:
• Battle for Crete
• The Desert Air War
• Second Battle of El Alamein
• Operation Crusader
• Invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky)

The actions of famous generals are introduced, including Bernard Montgomery and George S. Patton, and how their strategic offensives pushed back Axis forces. Augmented by fascinating photographs and forwarded by Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, The Battle for the Mediterranean tells the story of an all-encompassing conflict, by land, air and sea.

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The Battle for the Mediterranean: Allied and Axis Campaigns from North Africa to the Italian Peninsula, 1940-45
"This book provides a strategic overview of the war that is interweaved with fascinating personal accounts, its campaigns and battles." - Professor Geoffrey Roberts.

In this exciting and illuminating account, Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the major campaigns across the whole Mediterranean during World War II, from the struggle for control of the Suez Canal to the Allied landings in the French Riviera in the summer of 1944. This was America's first foray into the European theater and marked a real turning point in the Allied offensive against Axis powers.

Includes:
• Battle for Crete
• The Desert Air War
• Second Battle of El Alamein
• Operation Crusader
• Invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky)

The actions of famous generals are introduced, including Bernard Montgomery and George S. Patton, and how their strategic offensives pushed back Axis forces. Augmented by fascinating photographs and forwarded by Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, The Battle for the Mediterranean tells the story of an all-encompassing conflict, by land, air and sea.

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The Battle for the Mediterranean: Allied and Axis Campaigns from North Africa to the Italian Peninsula, 1940-45

The Battle for the Mediterranean: Allied and Axis Campaigns from North Africa to the Italian Peninsula, 1940-45

The Battle for the Mediterranean: Allied and Axis Campaigns from North Africa to the Italian Peninsula, 1940-45

The Battle for the Mediterranean: Allied and Axis Campaigns from North Africa to the Italian Peninsula, 1940-45

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"This book provides a strategic overview of the war that is interweaved with fascinating personal accounts, its campaigns and battles." - Professor Geoffrey Roberts.

In this exciting and illuminating account, Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the major campaigns across the whole Mediterranean during World War II, from the struggle for control of the Suez Canal to the Allied landings in the French Riviera in the summer of 1944. This was America's first foray into the European theater and marked a real turning point in the Allied offensive against Axis powers.

Includes:
• Battle for Crete
• The Desert Air War
• Second Battle of El Alamein
• Operation Crusader
• Invasion of Sicily (Operation Husky)

The actions of famous generals are introduced, including Bernard Montgomery and George S. Patton, and how their strategic offensives pushed back Axis forces. Augmented by fascinating photographs and forwarded by Geoffrey Roberts, Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork, The Battle for the Mediterranean tells the story of an all-encompassing conflict, by land, air and sea.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781839407147
Publisher: Arcturus Publishing Limited
Publication date: 11/15/2021
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Anthony Tucker-Jones, a former intelligence officer, is an author, commentator and writer who specializes in military history. He has over fifty books to his name as well as several hundred features online and in print. His latest study provides a concise and yet enthralling, account of all the vast conflicts fought throughout the Mediterranean during the Second World War - something that has not been attempted in over a decade.

Professor Geoffrey Roberts is Emeritus Professor of History at University College Cork and a recognized world authority on Stalin and the Second World War. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has won many academic awards and prizes, including a Fulbright Scholarship to Harvard University. His previous publications include The Unholy Alliance: Stalin's Pact with Hitler (1989), and Stalin's Wars: From World War to Cold War 1939-1953.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Professor Geoffrey Roberts
Introduction - The Cradle of Civilisation
1. Rumblings in the Med
2. Hemmed In
3. Desert Frontline
4. Fallen Allies
5. Second Blood
6. Fox is Killed
7. Back at Sea
8. Unwanted Distractions
9. Falling from the Skies
10. Adventures in the Levant
11. Maltese Sickness
12. Back to Tripoli
13. Where Next
14. Il Duce Resurrected
15. Air, Sea and Land
16. Deadly Sideshow
References
Bibliography
Index

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