Strangling the Axis The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War 1st Edition by Richard Hammond ISBN 1108478212 978-1108478212

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ISBN 10: 1108478212
ISBN 13: 978-1108478212
Author: Richard Hammond

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.

Strangling the Axis The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War 1st Table of contents:

1 The Descent to War in the Mediterranean

Artery of Empire: The Mediterranean in British Imperial Policy and Grand Strategy

Planning for War in the Mediterranean

From Peace to War

Axis Shipping, Routes and Port Facilities

British Attitudes and Policy on Attacking Merchant Shipping

2 Resisting Mare Nostrum: The Early Anti-shipping Campaign, June–December 1940

Early Priorities

The Campaign in Earnest: Early Anti-shipping Operations

War on a Shoestring: Assessing the Early Campaign

3 Enter Germany: January–July 1941

Gradual Increases in Campaign Priority and Inter-service Disputes

Anti-shipping Operations and Tactical Developments, January–July 1941

The Beginnings of Attrition: Assessing the Campaign, January–July 1941

4 Progress: August–December 1941

A New Emphasis in Priority

Anti-shipping Operations prior to and during ‘Crusader’

Operational Effects: Tobruk, ‘Crusader’ and the War at Sea

5 Axis Ascendency: January–August 1942

Shifting Priorities

Weathering the Storm: Anti-shipping Operations

Attrition versus Operational Effect

6 The End of the Beginning: Alam Halfa and El Alamein

Return from the Nadir

From Desperation to Optimism: Anti-shipping Operations, September–November 1942

‘Screaming for Fuel’: Operational Effect from Alam Halfa to the Axis Withdrawal from El Alamein

7 The End in North Africa and the Shipping Crisis: December 1942–May 1943

The Road to Tunis

‘La rotta della morte’: Anti-shipping Operations, December 1942–May 1943

‘Supplies Disastrous’: Operational Effects during the Tunisian Campaign

For Want of a Ship: Shipping Losses and the Collapse of the Axis Position

8 After North Africa

A Theatre Transformed

Anti-shipping Operations through to the End of the Campaign

The Final Collapse

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