The bitter sea
Subtitle: the struggle for mastery in the Mediterranean, 1935-1949
By: Simon Ball
Publisher: HarperPress; Harper Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780007203048; 9780007280377
Subjects: World War, 1939-1945; Campaigns; History; Military campaigns; Politik; Weltkrieg
Description: "A gripping history of the Mediterranean campaigns from the first rumblings of conflict through the Second World War and into the uneasy peace of the late 1940s. In the 1930s the British commanded the Mediterranean as the world's great thoroughfare, from Gibraltar in the west to the Suez Canal in the east. To the Americans, it represented the answer to anti-imperialism and to Mussolini it encapsulated his violent vision of conquest of "Mare Nostrum". In the ensuing war that raged, the blue waters of the Mediterranean and the surrounding nations witnessed an epic and brutal conflict between enemies and allies alike."--Global Books in Print.
Notes: Maps on lining papers.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Dead Dog; title: 2. Death On the Nile; title: 3. Of Mice and Men; title: 4. Gog & Magog; title: 5. Mediterranean Eden; title: 6. Losing the Light; title: 7. Italy Victorious; title: 8. Last Summer; title: 9. Of Worms and Frenchmen; title: 10. Deceivers; title: 11. Good Italians; title: 12. Last Supper; title: 13. Mission Impossible; title: 14. Goodbye Mediterranean.