柩軸国の息の根を止める：第二次大戦中の地中海制圧を賭けた海戦 Strangling the Axis : The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War (Cambridge Military Histories)

Hammond, Richard

Cambridge University Press（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 290 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108478212
• DDC分類 940.54293

Full Description

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.

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.