James Sadkovich

The Italian Navy in World War II

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This revisionist history convincingly argues that the Regia Marina Italiana (the Royal Italian Navy) has been neglected and maligned in assessments of its contributions to the Axis effort in World War II. After all, Italy was the major Axis player in the Mediterranean, and it was the Italian navy and air force, with only sporadic help from their German ally, that stymied the British navy and air force for most of the thirty-nine months that Italy was a belligerent. It was the Royal Italian Navy that provided the many convoys that kept the Axis war effort in Africa alive by repeatedly braving attack by aircraft, submarine, and surface vessels. If doomed by its own technical weaknesses and Ultra (the top-secret British decoding device), the Italian navy still fought a tenacious and gallant war; and if it did not win that war, it avoided defeat for thirty-nine, long, frustrating months.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. April 1994
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 790g
• ISBN-13: 9780313287978
• ISBN-10: 031328797X
• Artikelnr.: 22215021

Autorenporträt

JAMES J. SADKOVICH is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Southern Mississippi. His two previous books are Reevaluating Major Naval Combatants of World War II (Greenwood, 1990) and Italian Support of Croatian Separatism, 1927-1937 (1987).

Inhaltsangabe

Building a Navy Opening Shots: Punta Stilo
Capo Spada
and Malta British Harassment and Italian Perseverance The War in Earnest A Difficult Summer Crisis and Resolution Axis Dominance Pyrrhic Victories Winning the Battle
Losing the War Assessing the Damage and Picking a Winner Bibliography Index