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Old 23rd October 2020, 02:37
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Taranto: And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean

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https://www.amazon.com/Taranto-Naval...=books&sr=1-51


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Old 23rd October 2020, 06:47
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Re: Taranto: And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean

Taranto and Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean, 1940–1945
(Seaforth Publishing, imprint of Pen & Sword Books - 30 November 2020)
By David Hobbs
456 pages w/ 240 b&w photos and 6 maps - hardback
£35.00
£28.00 Introductory Offer

"This is the first book to focus on the Fleet Air Arm's contribution to naval operations in the Mediterranean after the Italian declaration of war in June 1940. The Royal Navy found itself facing a larger and better-equipped Italian surface fleet, large Italian and German air forces equipped with modern aircraft and both Italian and German submarines. Its own aircraft were a critical element of an unprecedented fight on, over and under the sea surface.

The best-known action was the crippling of the Italian fleet at Taranto, which demonstrated how aircraft carriers and their aircraft had replaced the dominance of battleships, but every subsequent operation is covered from the perspective of naval aviation. Some of these, like Matapan or the defence of the ‘Pedestal’ convoy to Malta, are famous but others in support of land campaigns and in the Aegean after the Italian surrender are less well recorded. In all these, the ingenuity and innovation of the Fleet Air Arm shines through – Taranto pointed the way to what the Japanese would achieve at Pearl Harbor, while air cover for the Salerno landings demonstrated the effectiveness of carrier-borne fighters in amphibious operations, a tactic adopted by the US Navy.

The author's years of archival research together with his experience as a carrier pilot allow him to describe and analyse the operations of naval aircraft in the Mediterranean with unprecedented authority. This provides the book with novel insights into many familiar facets of the Mediterranean war while for the first time doing full justice to the Fleet Air Arm’s lesser known achievements."

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"David Hobbs served in the Royal Navy as a pilot, and later became the Curator of the Fleet Air Arm Museum. He has since established himself as an authoritative writer on naval aviation topics, with more than a dozen highly regarded books to his name, most recent of these being The Royal Navy’s Air Service in the Great War published by Seaforth in 2017 and The Dawn of Carrier Strike in 2019."

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Re: Taranto: And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean

Available now in the US.

https://www.amazon.com/Taranto-Naval.../dp/1526793830

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Re: Taranto: And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean

I have a couple of Hobbs' books and have to confess I like his style.

I certainly will buy this one as well.
Hopefully it will complement the other books I have about the air war around the Mediterranean.

An area which possibly has seen more wars and, as I see it, is also the cradle of modern civilization, even if much of its history is not very civilized at all.

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Re: Taranto: And Naval Air Warfare in the Mediterranean

a very good book like all of this author !!
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