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Title: The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1940-1943 by Jack Greene, Alessandro Massignani ISBN: 1-885119-61-5 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1999 Format: Hardcover List Price(USD): $32.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 2
Summary: Find a Better Editor
Comment: If I had a dime for every grammatical error in this book, I'd be a rich man. The editing was horrible, and made it difficult to read.

The information presented was, on the whole, good. It was nice that the authors made available material from numerous Italian sources. However, the work relies greatly on secondary sources, and aside from attempting to present a balanced perspective, offers little new to the study of the War in the Mediterranean.

I had the impression from the dust jacket and other reviews that the book made far more use of primary sources. I was disappointed that this was not the case.

Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent and superbly documented account. Well done!
Comment: This book was thoroughly and well researched on the subject of the naval war in the Mediterranean Sea. A wealth of footnoted referrence materials and books have been provided for further reading. The authors set the stage for the conflict in the Mediterranean theater by briefly describing the circumstances of Italy, Great Britain, and France during the 1930's, the Spanish Civil war and roles that all the major European powers played in that war, and the arms race that took place by these countries up to the beginning of conflict. Every battle is thoroughly covered ... with numerous detailed maps of how the fleets were laid out, when and how they engaged in conflict, and the outcome of those battles. The authors gave an almost hour by hour break down of each battle, and provided detailed information on the breakdown of each fleet, including the exact number of ships, numbers and sizes of guns, numbers of aircraft involved on both sides, and why the engagements ended the way they did. The book was very well balanced, providing a point of view from the Italian side, as well as the English and French (when ever France was involved). If you want to read about classic naval warfare in World War II, the Mediterranean Sea was where it happened the most; where major fleets collided and gunned it out, where submarines, mines, torpedo boats, convoys, aircraft and aircraft carriers all played a major role in combat. I couldn't think of a better book to bring this to you than this book. A must read!!

Rating: 2
Summary: The Naval War in the Mediterranean 1940-1943
Comment: Standard short battle history. No new insight or information. could have been copied from Capt Roskill's wotk of the 1950s. If you read this you must read Sadkovich's work for balance and insight into the Italian war effort and why what the UK mediterranean fleet did was not always very inportant to the out come of the campaign.

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