The Naval War in the Mediterranean

This volume, originally published in 1987, fills a gap in a neglected area. Looking at the entire war in the Mediterranean, the volume examines the war from the viewpoint of all the important participants, making full use of archives and manuscript collections in Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Austria and the United States.

A fascinating mosaic of campaigns emerges in the Adriatic, Straits of Otranto, and the Eastern Aegean. The German assistance to the tribes of Libya, the threat that Germany would get her hands on the Russian Black Sea Fleet and use it in the Mediterranean, and the appearance and influence of the Americans in 1918 all took place against a background of rivalry between the Allies. This rivalry frustrated the appointment of Jellicoe in 1918 as supreme command at sea in a role similar to that of Foch on land.