Strangling the Axis: The Fight for Control of the Mediterranean during the Second World War

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Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
A Note on Terminology: ‘British’ and ‘Allied’
List of Abbreviations
Maps
Introduction
	Sea Power and the Global Second World War
	Historians, Shipping and the Mediterranean War
1 The Descent to War in the Mediterranean
	Artery of Empire: The Mediterranean in British Imperial Policy and Grand Strategy
	Planning for War in the Mediterranean
	From Peace to War
	Axis Shipping, Routes and Port Facilities
	British Attitudes and Policy on Attacking Merchant Shipping
2 Resisting Mare Nostrum: The Early Anti-shipping Campaign, June–December 1940
	Early Priorities
	The Campaign in Earnest: Early Anti-shipping Operations
	War on a Shoestring: Assessing the Early Campaign
3 Enter Germany: January–July 1941
	Gradual Increases in Campaign Priority and Inter-service Disputes
	Anti-shipping Operations and Tactical Developments, January–July 1941
	The Beginnings of Attrition: Assessing the Campaign, January–July 1941
4 Progress: August–December 1941
	A New Emphasis in Priority
	Anti-shipping Operations prior to and during ‘Crusader’
	Operational Effects: Tobruk, ‘Crusader’ and the War at Sea
5 Axis Ascendency: January–August 1942
	Shifting Priorities
	Weathering the Storm: Anti-shipping Operations
	Attrition versus Operational Effect
6 The End of the Beginning:̀ Alam Halfa and El Alamein
	Return from the Nadir
	From Desperation to Optimism: Anti-shipping Operations, September–November 1942
	‘Screaming for Fuel’: Operational Effect from Alam Halfa to the Axis Withdrawal from El Alamein
7 The End in North Africa and the
Shipping Crisis: December 1942–May 1943
	The Road to Tunis
	‘La rotta della morte’: Anti-shipping Operations, December 1942–May 1943
	‘Supplies Disastrous’: Operational Effects during the Tunisian Campaign
	For Want of a Ship: Shipping Losses and the Collapse of the Axis Position
8 After North Africa
	A Theatre Transformed
	Anti-shipping Operations through to the End of the Campaign
	The Final Collapse
Conclusion
Notes
	Note on Terminology
	Introduction
	Chapter 1
	Chapter 2
	Chapter 3
	Chapter 4
	Chapter 5
	Chapter 6
	Chapter 7
	Chapter 8
	Conclusion
Bibliography
	Unpublished Primary Sources
	Published Primary Sources
	Newspapers
	Secondary Sources: Official Histories
	Secondary Sources: Articles and Chapters
	Secondary Sources: Books
	Secondary Sources: Unpublished Theses
Index