"This book provides a strategic overview of the war that is interweaved with fascinating personal accounts, its campaigns and battles." - Professor Geoffrey Roberts.
In this exciting and illuminating account, Anthony Tucker-Jones explores the major campaigns across the whole Mediterranean during World War II, from the struggle for control of the Suez Canal to the Allied landings in the French Riviera in the summer of 1944. This was America's first foray into the European theater and marked a real turning point in the Allied offensive against Axis powers. Includes: