Segunda Guerra Mundial

Operation Pedestal, Operation Torch and Operation Dragon: the largest naval confrontation in history between the Italian Royal Navy and the British Royal Navy for control of the Mediterranean and North Africa during World War II. The work describes and analyzes the evolution of naval warfare in the Mediterranean during World War II. The book completes the entire development of the naval war in the Mediterranean, from the beginning of activities on June 10, 1940, the date on which Mussolini declared war on the Allies, until the end of hostilities in this sea, when the The government of the Third Reich signed the surrender to the allies in Berlin on May 8, 1945. The heart of the book is the Battle of the Mediterranean, that is, the fight of the Regia Marina against the Royal Navy, the combat between the two navies main confrontations from the outbreak of hostilities in Italy until the signing of the Allied Italian armistice of July 25, 1943. The book continues the development of the Allied offensive, from the irruption of the allies in the Mediterranean with the great landing in the North of Africa, Operation "Torch", which led to the defeat of the Afrika Korps, until the surrender of Germany.