Mediterranean air war : airpower and Allied victory in World War II

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Ehlers, Robert, author

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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. This is one of many lessons o...

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. 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. Ehlers opens his account with an assessment of the pre-war Mediterranean theater, highlighting the ways in which the playe.

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