Mediterranean Air War Ehlers Robert S. Jr.
Mediterranean Air War Ehlers Robert S. Jr. Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942-1944, the Normandy landings--and so, perhaps, the Second World War II--would have ended…
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Mediterranean Air War Ehlers Robert S. Jr.
Without what the Allies learned in the Mediterranean air war in 1942-1944, the Normandy landings--and so, perhaps, the Second World War II--would have ended differently. Ehlers opens his account with an assessment of the pre-war Mediterranean theater, highlighting the ways in which the players' strategic choices, strengths, and shortcomings set the stage for and ultimately shaped the air campaigns over the Middle Sea. This is one of many lessons of The Mediterranean Air War, the first one-volume history of the vital role of airpower during the three-year struggle for control of the Mediterranean Basin in World War II--and of its significance for the Allied successes in the war's last two years.Airpower historian Robert S.
Beginning with the Italian invasion of Abyssinia, Ehlers reprises the developing international crisis--initially between Britain and Italy, and finally