Arab Armies of the Middle East Wars (2), 

Автор: Johnson Rob
Название: Great War and the Middle East
ISBN: 019968328X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199683284
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: The story of the First World War in the Middle East - and how it swept away five hundred years of Ottoman rule to lay the foundations for the troubled Middle East that we know today.

Автор: Wood Ian
Название: The Modern Origins of the Early Middle Ages
ISBN: 0198767498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198767497
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Ian Wood explores how Western Europeans have looked back to the Middle Ages to discover their origins and the origins of their society.

Автор: O`Hara Vincent P.
Название: Struggle for the Middle Sea
ISBN: 1591141966 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781591141969
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: The Mediterranean Sea was the most intensely contested body of water in World War II. As the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet, more major naval actions were fought in the Mediterranean than in the Atlantic or Pacific. Despite its importance, remarkably little has been written about the subject, and what exists is largely one-sided and outdated. This fresh study of the naval war in the Mediterranean analyses the actions and performances of the five major navies—British, Italian, French, German, and American—during the entire five-year campaign and objectively examines the national imperatives that drove each nation’s maritime strategy.Struggle for the Middle Sea sidesteps the myths that haunt this campaign, such as Great Britain enjoying a moral advantage over Italy, or the French being Germany’s puppet, or the North African campaign significantly contributing to the eventual Allied victory. The book documents how the British Royal Navy, despite brilliant victories, was bled white in a campaign with questionable strategic goals; how Italy followed its own coherent naval strategy, much to the frustration of its German ally; and how the Marine Nationale was the strength of the independent French state and how it fought the Allies—and rejected the Axis—to maintain that independence.Most World War II histories tell the story of the Mediterranean War from a limited national point of view. Other works also end the story in 1943. Struggle for the Middle Sea provides a complete history of the entire campaign from all perspectives and covers Germany’s largely unknown—and remarkably successful—struggle to employ sea power in the Mediterranean after the Italian armistice.The book’s perspective and depth of detail is unmatched by other works, and its fresh viewpoints, supported by extensive research in Italian and French sources, are certain to provoke controversy. Its lessons about coastal warfare, the use of the sea, and the difficulty of sea denial have particular application today.