Cambridge Military Histories #: Strangling the Axis

Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War

Cambridge Military Histories #: Strangling the Axis
Richard Hammond
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25 Jun 2020 UK
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9781108478212
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This is a major reassessment of the causes of Allied victory in the Second World War in the Mediterranean region. Drawing on a unique range of multinational source material, Richard Hammond demonstrates how the Allies' ability to gain control of the key routes across the sea and sink large quantities of enemy shipping denied the Axis forces in North Africa crucial supplies and proved vital to securing ultimate victory there. Furthermore, the sheer scale of attrition to Axis shipping outstripped their industrial capacity to compensate, leading to the collapse of the Axis position across key territories maintained by seaborne supply, such as Sardinia, Corsica and the Aegean islands. As such, Hammond demonstrates how the anti-shipping campaign in the Mediterranean was the fulcrum about which strategy in the theatre pivoted, and the vital enabling factor ultimately leading to Allied victory in the region.

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'Charting the interplay of means, methods and measures, and resting on meticulous research, Richard Hammond's authoritative account of a neglected but decisive campaign explains for the first time exactly how air and sea power throttled the Axis forces in North Africa, laying the foundations for victory in the Mediterranean.' John Gooch, University of Leeds
'Richard Hammond provides a much needed comprehensive analysis of the British anti-shipping campaign in the Mediterranean and underscores the impact it had on the ability of both the Allies and the Axis to pursue victory in the region as well as elsewhere in Europe.' Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University
'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
'Charting the interplay of means, methods and measures, and resting on meticulous research, Richard Hammond's authoritative account of a neglected but decisive campaign explains for the first time exactly how air and sea power throttled the Axis forces in North Africa, laying the foundations for victory in the Mediterranean.' John Gooch, University of Leeds
'Richard Hammond provides a much needed comprehensive analysis of the British anti-shipping campaign in the Mediterranean and underscores the impact it had on the ability of both the Allies and the Axis to pursue victory in the region as well as elsewhere in Europe.' Mary Kathryn Barbier, Mississippi State University
'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
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).
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ISBN-13: 9781108478212
Published: 25 Jun 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304

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